117 Department of External Affairs to Mackay  Cablegram 43
CANBERRA, 13 February 1948   Your telegram 77 [1] regarding
India's share in surplus B.C.O.F.   The position is as follows:-
1. In response to an enquiry regarding the disposal of surplus
B.C.O.F. stores, the Australian contingent in Tokyo was informed
on 8th January that the whole question was under consideration.
They were instructed to postpone disposal for the present until
a decision was reached, when further instructions would be sent.
2. Apparently a garbled version of the above 'mark time' order
leaked out to the Indian representative, resulting in Bajpai's
well-founded complaint.  3. In determining the share of
disposable stores due to each of the participating Governments,
the underlying principle has been that allocations will be in
proportion to the contribution made by each Government which
originally undertook to support the Force, with India and
Pakistan sharing on some agreed basis the stores assigned to the
original Indian continge