I am sending to you today a note [1], and various annexes,
containing further details of my Government's offer of educational
supplies. I hope these will be sufficient to inform you of my
Government's proposals and for you to formulate your own requests
on the basis of the special needs existing in the Republic. For
your information I have also included the major comments made by
Mr. Schrader during my discussions with him earlier in the year.

In order that arrangements for the supply of the materials
requested might be finalized as soon as possible I shall be most
grateful to receive your early advice as to the allocation of the
grant you desire.

With regard to the scholarships, I have now received authority
from the Government to re-open the discussions and I shall
approach the Far Eastern Office along the lines we suggested on
Monday, before the end of the week. It would be most helpful,
then, if you would be good enough to mention the matter informally
to Dr. van Royen, as you proposed, and if you could secure his
assistance in obtaining the approval of the local authorities to
my negotiating directly with you on the matter and to the Republic
selecting its scholars independently of the Education Department
in Djakarta. I shall keep you informed of the developments.

P.S. For your information, I might mention that I have also
suggested to Dr. Leimena that it would be helpful if he secured
the support of Dr. van Royen in regard to the arrangements for the
post-UNRRA relief supplies.