Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Foreign Minister of Indonesia Ahmad Subardjo, Ambassador of Indonesia Ali Sastroamidjojo, and Dean Rusk

COPY - C ministry 445 SECRE'I SERVICE" country carb U.S. DELEGATION 268 JAPANESE PEACE DELEGATION MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION September 3, 1951 SUBJECT: Visit of the Indonesian Foreign Minister PARTICIPANTS: Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmad Subardjo Ambassador Ali Sastroamidjojo Secretary of State Dean Acheson Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk COPIES TO: The Secretary Mr. Dulles Mr. Sebald Mr. Allison Mr. O'Sullivan The Indonesian Foreign Minister, accompanied by Ambassador Ali, called on the Secretary of State and remained about 30 minutes. After the usual exchange of courtesies, the Foreign Minister said that the Indonesian Delegation was here under precise instructions from the Indonesian Government and that, under these instructions, the Foreign Minister would report daily to his government on developments in San Francisco. He said that the Cabinet would make the decision as to whether Indonesia would sign the Treaty. Indonesia was generally sympathetic to the broad foreign policy of the United States. The fundamental problems in the Japanese Peace Treaty, from Indonesia's point of view, arise in the economic clauses. The Foreign Minister said that the Indonesian Government was grateful for the recognition in the Treaty of the principle of reparations but that it was not clear how such principles would be implemented. He referred also the importance of the fishing problem since the re-entry of Japanese fishing vessels into Indonesian waters raised the spectacle of a new Japanese imperialism in DECLASSIFIED that E. o. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (II) Dapt. of State letter, 5-12-76 SECRE T Bz NLT- HL NARS Date 30-76