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466 Department of External Affairs to Quinn

Cablegram 58 CANBERRA, 8 August 1949

RESTRICTED

Your 116. [1]

We note another postponement and even yet no fixed date. Assembly
meeting is now one month away. Unless fixed date is announced
within next few days, we must assume no conference conclusions are
intended before Assembly. Please ascertain position as Critchley's
movements in relation to Assembly must now be considered.

1 Dispatched on 7 August, it reported a statement by Van
Maarseveen on 3 August that the Netherlands Government reserved
freedom to delay the opening of the Round Table Conference until
the Cease-fire agreement in Indonesia had been implemented.


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