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Volume #14 - 141. | |
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CHAPITRE III NATIONS UNIES | |
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2E PARTIE POLITIQUE GÉNÉRALE | |
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SECTION
B POLITIQUE GÉNÉRALE | |
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4 INDONÉSIE | |
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DEA/50054-40 |
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Le sous-secrétaire d'État aux Affaires extérieures à l'ambassadeur aux Pays-Bas | |
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Ottawa,
le 16 janvier 1948 |
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Dear Pierre [Dupuy]: By now you will probably have received our circular document A.7 of January 12th, † with which was enclosed a memorandum of December 29th, † on the Indonesian question which was prepared in this Department for the information of our representative on the Security Council. You will recognize in that memorandum much of the material you have been good enough to send us in your despatches, and you will notice that we have relied rather heavily on the information which you have provided. This week we have been wrestling with the problem of drafting instructions for General McNaughton on the ]ndonesian question for submission to the Minister for his consideration. The recent announcements of the plan to form a federation of about ten autonomous states means that we will have to consider the whole question in its broad outlines rather than confine ourselves to the problem of securing the effective implementation of the cease-fire order. In trying to work out a suitable approach to this whole difficult question, we have been finding your numerous and useful reports on the situation as viewed from the Hague to be most helpful. We appreciate that you have been devoting much time and energy to the preparation of your frequent despatches, and I would like you and your staff to know how valuable we have found them. Your close association and friendship with The Prime Minister and other high ranking officials of the Netherlands Government have, by enabling you to keep well abreast of current developments, made you one of our most important sources of information on the whole Indonesian question. This is especially so, since we have no representation at the present time in Batavia. I would be glad if you would convey to Feaver a word of appreciation for the despatches which he sent us during your recent visit to Canada. Those, and others which he has written, have also been found most helpful here in Ottawa. Yours sincerely, | |
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