Your Australian Embassy, Washington, 75 and 87. [1]

INDONESIA

In discussion today with United States Delegation, we stressed the
serious view taken of position and spoke on lines of your 87. They
have received nothing from Cochran, but say he is due in Batavia
on the 13th presumably in time for submission of Commission's
report to Council. They contemplate meeting of Council possibly by
the end of the coming week.

2. Pending the Commission's report which they expect to be very
firm and possible decisions by Dutch in the meanwhile, United
States are not inclined to discuss next move by Council. They
claim that on the basis of reports from The Hague (not from
Cochran) some elements of the Dutch Government are realizing the
impossible situation which Netherlands policy so far has produced,
and do not exclude some decision by the Dutch before the next
Council meeting which will give the Council something new to go
on. As it is, they do not see what possible case Van Royen could
put to the Council in the existing circumstances. Their attitude
to further steps by the Council under Chapter 7 is as indicated in
paragraph 2 Washington telegram 114. [2]

3. Meanwhile Indonesian delegation in letter to the President
Security Council 10th February has called the attention of the
Council to the fact that up to the present time, 12 days after the
adoption of the latest Council resolution [3] Netherlands has not
yet released political prisoners thus making it impossible for the
Republican Government to convene or to make any decisions
whatsoever. On the other hand, the Netherlands Government, which
has full freedom of action has not yet made any decision about
acceptance or rejection of the Council resolution. Letter also
called attention to the fact that on the first February the Dutch
bombed a town in Sumatra and on the following day landed further
troops also in Sumatra.