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Department of External Affairs to Australian Delegation, United Nations

Cablegram [UNY]330 CANBERRA, 4 November 1946

SECRET

Your U.N.610. [1]

1. Matter [2] is both legal and factual dispute and is essentially one for direct discussions between parties. In event of discussions breaking down or being inconclusive you should [support] judicial investigation both of fact and law and mere abstention in circumstances is quite futile.

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1 Document 193.

2 That is, U.N. General Assembly consideration of an Indian complaint about the treatment of Indians in South Africa.

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[AA:A1838/2, 852/10/2, i]