INDONESIA AND ASIAN CONFERENCE

Many thanks for your memorandum of 24 January and earlier
memoranda enclosing copies of Australian telegrams, which have
been invaluable to us in following developments in the Indonesian
situation. [1]

For the unfortunate misunderstanding concerning the opening date
of the Delhi conference, this Department must, unhappily, take
full responsibility. The misunderstanding arose through failure on
our part to check the accuracy of press reports and it was merely
an additional misfortune that information did not reach us from
any quarter which would have drawn our attention in time to our
erroneous assumption. We certainly do not feel that either you or
your Australian counterparts bear any measure of responsibility,
and in fact are extremely grateful for the excellent co-operation
which we have enjoyed on the Indonesian question.