A United States Department of State summary from 1962 asserts the ""agreement was almost a total victory for Indonesia and a defeat for the Netherlands"", that the United States ""Bureau of European Affairs was sympathetic to the Dutch view that annexation by Indonesia would simply trade white for brown colonialism"", and that ""The underlying reason that the Kennedy administration pressed the Netherlands to accept this agreement was that it believed that Cold War considerations of preventing Indonesia from going Communist overrode the Dutch case.""