You will have seen telegrams UN24 and 25 from New York. [1] Glad
of your urgent comments.

Main objection to United States draft resolution appears to be
instruction to parties to resume negotiations, which, as we
pointed out to Hood on Friday, will simply bring matters back to
where they were before police action and enable Dutch pressure to
continue on Republic for another three months at least. On the
other hand it seems to me that if Security Council itself is to
lay down terms of settlement covering all matters in dispute it
would be difficult, if not impossible, for Council to draw up
hurriedly a satisfactory and comprehensive settlement for
inclusion in pending resolution. One solution might be for Council
to give its Commission three weeks in which to draw up technical
details of a just and workable settlement (working by majority
vote and consulting parties as necessary) for presentation to
Security Council, which could then endorse and promulgate it.

I am going down to Melbourne to-night with latest telegrams and in
case I am needed tomorrow. Understand Minister has an engagement
on Tuesday and may after all fly to Sydney on Wednesday, but this
is still undetermined.

You will note that we passed on Critchley's eyewitness reports [2]
from Batavia to New York and that Hood made use of them. I have
telegraphed Critchley about distribution of supplies.