Item 205 - 17 July 1956-23 July 1956

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Typed report on CPI and KO activities (two copies). John Nolan was to report on the Executive Committee meeting in London but failed to turn up. On 18th July Nolan met four members at New Books, 16a Pearse Street, and told them that the London conference did not have a satisfactory outcome. On the 19th July Nolan gave a talk on ‘Emigration, a National Crisis’. Capitalism had failed the census returns showed a decline in the population agricultural production and manufacturing industries are less than half developed 60,000 unemployed. He referred to a series of lectures under the patronage of Dr. McQuaid titled ‘The Answer to Communism’.