856A.20/41: Telegram
The Minister to the Netherlands Government in Exile (Biddle) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 30—3 p.m.]
Netherlands Series 26. For the President. Your 27, September 20, 5 p.m., and my 24, September 25, 7 p.m. Queen Wilhelmina has requested me to send you following message:
“Thank you very much for your kind message of September 22 which I have studied with great interest. I am pleased to see that we are in agreement in principle on the terms on which the forces you have offered to send to Surinam would be received there. Before giving instructions to the Governor I should like to suggest that we first agree on the question of finding a basis agreeable to us both for the purpose of inviting some form of participation by Brazil. May I suggest, that your Minister here discuss this important point with my Minister for Foreign Affairs, when I feel sure that a solution [Page 818] will be found satisfactory to us both, assuring you at the same time that you have made your point of view in this matter perfectly clear to me so that I fully realize the goal you wish to attain for the common cause of the countries resisting aggression.
I quite agree that the observation of secrecy should be continued for the present, and you can count on us in this respect.”
I am seeing the Foreign Minister Van Kleffens at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning at his request.