U.S. AND BRUSSELS POWERS: DUTCH POLICY ISSUE
NEW YORK, April 14.
“A rift has occurred between the United States and the Brussels Treaty Powers over the Netherlands’ quarrel with the Indonesians,” says the diplomatic correspondent of the New York Timos.
“It is understood that Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg proposed that the United States should furnish them with military equipment as a group, to be distributed by them in accordance with their joint defence plans. The United States Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson) opposed the plan on the ground that he could not endorse any such stipulation to Congress, which would reserve freedom to decide who should get what arms and on what terms. ' ’
“Behind this apparently technical question of procedure lies a dispute over .whether the United States should decide on its own whether to grant military equipment to tne Netherlands or withhold it because of the Netherlands’ quarrel with the Indonesian Republic.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1949, Page 7
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