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Oak-Paneled Room. Under the nose of the U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which had been trying to negotiate a settlement, Stikker broke off the parley and took his team back to The Hague. There, in an oak-paneled room of the Ministry of Justice, the cabinet held many grave and sharply divided sessions. A royal decree was promulgated, setting up a provisional Indonesian federation which did not include the republic. Everyone knew that the decree could not be enforced without military action. The Socialists were opposed to fighting (the royal family was said to be against it also); but the war party, led by War Minister Willem F. Schokking, had its way. A go-ahead signal was flashed to Lieut. General Simon H. Spoor in Batavia.