DUTCH PROPOSAL FOR INDONESIA

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25742, 2 March 1949, Page 5

DUTCH PROPOSAL FOR INDONESIA

APPARENT REJECTION BY REPUBLICANS

ALLEGED EVASION OF U.N. RESOLUTION

BATAVIA, February 28. Rejection by the Indonesian Republicans of the Dutch round-table proSiosal seems indicated in a cablegram rom Mr Roem, chairman of the Republican delegation, to the chairman of thq United Nations Commission on Indonesia.

On Saturday night the Dutch Government .announced that it had decided to release the Republican leaders, and had invited all the parties concerned to a round-table conference at The Hague. Mr Roem stated: “This new move of the Netherlands, as so often before, gives expression to their denial of the legality of the -Security Council’s intervention and substitutes a different proposal on their own authority. Our Government will, however, never cooperate in any action evading implementation of the Security Council resolution.”

_ Mr Roem also said that the Netherlands official who delivered the letter of invitation to Dr. Soekarno, the Indonesian President, had made it perfectly clear, in an elucidation, that on no account Would the Netherlands Government comply with the condition restore the actual Government of the Republic in its power over any part of the territory. “The official also explained, contrary to the wording of his Government s statement on the abrogation of the remaining restrictions concerning the liberty of movement of the Republican leaders, we should in no case be allowed to return to Jogja-