
A meeting of the United Nations Security Council Consular Commission at Batavia, Netherlands East Indies with Dutch officials present. The Commission was set up to report to the Security Council on the observance of a ceasefire between Dutch and Indonesian Republican forces, and consisted of the consular representatives in Batavia of Australia, Belgium, Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US). Photograph taken September 1947. The man with the pipe on the left foreground, facing the camera, is Group Captain Charles Eaton, the then acting Australian Consul-General in Batavia. AWM P03531.003
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