Your telegram 332 [1]'
Cessation of Marshall aid to Indonesia only is little more than a
gesture. The State Department has been considering aid to the
Netherlands also which appears to be the only sanction likely to
be effective. Cochran is sympathetic but has asked me not to
report his reactions to you.

2. The United Kingdom Foreign Office is reported to be opposed to
sanctions because the Netherlands Government will refuse to halt
police action (sic).

3. If the Dutch maintain their defiant attitude there will be
little value in the Committee and Military Observers remaining.

The United States in their recent strong note [2] to the Dutch
indicated that if there was no basis for negotiations they would
withdraw their Representative on the Committee and restore their
freedom of action. I shall be able to report further on this in
the next day or two.

4. In the immediate future there is every likelihood that the
Committee will be asked for a further report. In view of recent
detailed reports from the Committee this should presumably be
short and in order to overcome Herremans' objections, make use of
the language used by Cochran and Cutts. At the same time it should
be possible to criticise inaccuracies in recent Netherlands
statements and include a punch line to the effect that recent
precipitant use of force by the Netherlands would appear to
justify Hatta's concern for the need of safeguards against the use
of Netherlands troops in the interim period.