Letter from the French Embassy in the Netherlands to Georges Bidault on the new status of the Netherlands Indies (The Hague, 12 February 1946)
Text In a letter dated 12 February 1946, the Head of Mission at the French Embassy in The Hague, Renaud Sivan, informs the French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of the text published on 10 February on behalf of the Netherlands Government providing for a new status for the Netherlands Indies and the other Dutch colonies. In this text, the acting Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, Hubertus Johannes van Mook, proposes a democratic association between the Netherlands and a Commonwealth of Indonesia, in which the Republic of Indonesia would form a state which it would administrate, while the other territories of the archipelago would be free to choose their political future.
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Source: SIVAN, Renaud. [Lettre de Renaud Sivan à Georges Bidault (La Haye, 12 février 1945)]: Nouveau statut pour les Indes Néerlandaises et le "Commonwealth néerlandais". 12-02-1946. Kept in: Archives nationales d'outre-mer. Affaires politiques (XIXème siècle/1962), Ministère des Colonies. Direction des Affaires politiques. Relations internationales. Relations avec les territoires ou états étrangers limitrophes. Indes néerlandaises. 1940/1948. FR ANOM 61COL2656.
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