Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East and Australasia, Volume VII, Part 1

501.BC Indonesia/1–3149: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Belgium ¹

secret

Washington, January 31, 1949—7 p. m.

95. Cochran plans leave New York 7:00 p. m. Feb 3 Pan Am for Brussels where he expects remain through Sat proceeding Hague Sun. Suggest you inform Spaak in event he wishes see him. Also suggest you inquire whether in view broadened scope Commission’s responsibility it is intended that Van Zeeland return Batavia. This inquiry not intended discredit Herremans who has been cooperative but to emphasize importance we attach success Commission’s work.²

Acheson

1. Repeated as 80 to The Hague.
2. Similarly, telegram 18 to Canberra inquired whether the Australian Foreign Office intended to return the former Australian member of the UN SC GOC, Justice Richard C. Kirby, who had retired early in 1948, to the newly expanded UN Commission on Indonesia.