584            FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1950, VOLUME I

  2. India
    a. At the request of the GOI, the United States Government has
  agreed to the deletion of paragraph 3 of the agreement on beryl.7 It
  is expected that the Indians will soon carry through with the commit-
  ments made in the agreement to ship 400 tons of beryl to the United
  States during the first year of the agreement.
    b. Several approaches by private parties for the purchase of Indian
  monazite have been unsuccessful. GOI policy ostensibly still con-
  tinues to prohibit the export of the raw material, and the Government
  is proceeding with its plans to process substantial quantities of mona-
  zite in India. The thorium recovered will be retained for atomic
  energy research and development. The rare earth products presumably
  will be sold in part through the French company, STR, to supply the
  needs of consuming countries, including the United States.
  3. Indonesia
  Our Ambassador has been requested at the earliest appropriate
  time to discuss informally at the 1highest level with the Indonesian
  Government the accession of that Government to the applicable pro-
  visions of the Netherlands monazite agreement of 1945.8 This is pro-
  vided for in the Hague agreements consummated in December 1948.9

                                 D. FE
 1. China
   See Export Controls (IV)
 2. Japan
   Nothing to report,
 3. Korea
   This office has learned that prior to the outbreak of hostilities in
 South Korea, the Russians were making active efforts to maximize
 production of monazite from North Korean sources. The significance
 of these activities with respect to the USSR atomic program is
 unknown.

 'The draft agreement of October 20, 1949, is described in telegram 244 from
 New Delhi, July 29, 1950, p. 567.
 8 Reference is to the Secret Memorandum of Agreement between the Nether-
 lands Government and the Governments of the United States and the United
 Kingdom, signed in London, August 4, 1945, not printed. For documentation
on
 the negotiation of the agreement, see Foreign Relations, 1945, vol. ii,
pp. 9-36
 passirm.
 'Article 5 of the Netherlands-Indonesian Agreement on Transitional Measures
 which took effect with the transfer of sovereignty over Indonesia on Decem-
 ber 27, 1949, provided that the United States of Indonesia assumed the rights
 and obligations specified in treaties and agreements which had been concluded
 by the Kingdom of the Netherlands where applicable to the jurisdiction of
the
 United States of Indonesia. F~or documentatfion on the interest of the United
 St~ate's in nationalist opposi~tion to the restoration of Netherlands rule
in the East
 Indies, including material on The Hague negotiations, see Foreign Relations,
1948,
vol. wi, pp. 57 ift.