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    "ocrText": "-8-\nIndonesia: Ambassador Austin Criticizes Soviet Attack\non\nSettlement. -- The Soviet attack on the settlement of the\nIndonesian question, Ambassador Austin said in a plenary ses-\nsion of the UN General Assembly on December 7, was not \"unex-\npected. He charged that the Soviet Union and its satellites\nhad \"consistently attacked constructive efforts of the United\nNations to solve its problems. If The continuation of disputes,\nhe continued, was essential for the promotion of the \"Comin-\nform's expansionist ambitions. \" He warned that if the legiti-\nmate leaders of nationalist independence movements accept the\nsupport of international Communism they merely \"trade one colo-\nnialism for another. '15\nIndonesia: Deputy Representative Gross Decries Soviet\nOpposition to the Settlement. -- Speaking before the Security\nCouncil on December 12, US Delegate Ernest A. Gross referred\nto the Soviet charges that the agreements reached in Novem-\nber at the Round Table Conference held at The Hague left In-\ndonesia under imperialist control. He said that these char-\nges were simply an effort to hide the facts. He declared\nthat the accord reached at The Hague provided that the United\nIndonesian Republic would be a free and independent state,\nwith the people of Indonesia free to choose their own form of\ngovernment and their leaders. \"The Soviet Union\", continued\nMr. Gross, \"has not been willing to support any of the reso-\nlutions of the Assembly or of the Security Council looking\ntowards the development of Indonesia as a free and indepen-\ndent people. \"16\nand\n15us Delegation to the General Assembly press release\n773, Dec. 7.\n16.\nUS Mission to the United Nations press release 779,\nDec. 13."
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