Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY WASHINGTON March 7, 1949 DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 By NLT- HL NARS, Date 11-13-to SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS NORTH ATLANTIC Agreement on the text of the North Atlantic pact has been substantially reached in the conversations here and we expect to have the tentative agreement of the eight gov- ernments at present pafticipating in the discussions by the middle of this week, when we expect to be able to communicate the text officially to the Danish, Icelandic, Portuguese and probably the Italian govern- ments. We hope to make it public toward the end of the week. We con- template a conference here during the last days of March for final con- sideration and signature of the pact in which we believe that Denmark, Iceland, Portugal and Italy, if included, should participate as original signatories. INDONESIA We have conveyed to the Dutch our desire that they find some way to meet the requirement of the Indo- nesian Republicans that their government be restored to Jogjakarta; in reply to these representations the Dutch Acting Foreign Minister reit- erated his government's opposition to this step but said that there is a bare possibility that restoration of the Republicans to Jogjakarta might be considered in return for absolute assurances from them that they would attend a conference in The Hague in the immediate future. Our representative on the UN Commission for Indonesia reports that the Dutch are making strenuous efforts to get the Indonesian federalists to with- draw their support of the Republican position on return to Jogjakarta and recommends that a meeting of the Security Council be held immediately on the Indonesian question at which the US should insist that the Council's previous resolution stand as it is and advocate that the Council request the Netherlands to proceed immediately with the restoration of the Re- publicans to their capital. MILITARY AID Ambassador Harriman has informed the Dutch Foreign Minister in Paris that, in view of our UN obliga- tions, it may be necessary for us to refuse to furnish military assis- tance to the Netherlands prior to a settlement in Indonesia and that Congress would also probably require such a settlement as a condition for granting aid to the Netherlands. The Dutch Foreign Minister said that he does not anticipate any early solution to the Indonesian ques- tion and, specifically, that any Dutch government which agreed to the restoration of the Republicans to Jogjakarta would fall. T