APPEAL FOR GOODWILL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 5

APPEAL FOR GOODWILL

SETTLEMENT IN INDONESIA SECURITY COUNCIL MISSION NEGOTIATIONS N.Z.P.A.—Reuter— Copyright. Rec 9 p.m. BATAVIA, Dec. 8. Negotiations to settle the Indonesian dispute betwen the Dutch and Indonesian Republicans began this morning on board the United States Navy transport Renville, in Batavia Harbour. Members of the Security Council’s Three-Nation Committee of Good Offices and leaders of the delegations appealed in their opening speches for co-operation, goodwill and justice. Mr R. C. Kirby (Australia) said that only some of the trials and difficulties which confronted the Security Council’s committee had been overcome, and that very many lay ahead, A lack of co-operation and goodwill at this stage would assuredly lead to the failure of their mission.

The Netherlands, with the co-opera-tion of an ever-increasing number of Indonesians, sought to build out of the chaos left by war, a sovereign and free United States of • Indonesia, said the leader of the Netherlands delegation, Abdul Kadir. The meeting on the Renville was the beginning of a new phase of this work. It was the Netherlands’ earnest hope that it would be successful.

The Republican Premier. Dr Amir Sjarifuddin, paid a tribute to the work of the earlier British negotiators, Lord Inverchapel and Lord Killearn, “ even though their efforts did not bring about the solution originally hoped for. We recognise their guidance not only made a contribution to the experience of our young republic, but also demonstrated to'the world how a problem of great complexity can be solved by good faith and goodwill.” He added that Republicans would pave the way to their noble aim by discarding violence in. favour of reason, by attempting settlement.