Letter from +Craven to +McQuaid regarding Hungarian priests who are available to visit refugees. Those in the Belfast camp are going to Canada and a priest is available. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from Fr. Thomas F. Ryan, Stella Maris, Sandymount, to McQuaid, stating that Major Roger Fitzgerald-Lombard is seeking an introduction. He is a prominent member of the Knights of Malta and two of his daughters are members of the Holy Child nuns. He also quotes Cardinal McRory saying that ‘Roger is a very brave man. He had the courage….to lead his men to Mass every Sunday in Belfast, bands playing and banners flying. It takes a very brave man to do that in Balfost (sic)’.

Letter from Rev. Charles H. Bain, North Belfast Mission, 37 Gt. George’s Street, Belfast to +McQuaid stating that the people of Pakistan have been remembered in their prayers and they already have had a collection for them.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: Patrick Carmody gave an illustrated lecture on Sean O’Casey. ‘Buster’ McCabe arrived from Belfast. Peadar O’Donnell spoke on ‘The Irish in Britain’, saying that English Catholics were antagonistic towards Irish émigrés. Tommy O’Reilly (a retired ITGWU official) said that “150 unemployed from each side of the city should purchase food and having no money to pay would be jailed. This would bring matters to a head.”

Extract from The Tablet, titled ‘Red Infiltration in Eire Charged’. Alderman Seamus McKearney, a Catholic official of the Corporation of Belfast, argued at a meeting in Manhattan that Communism had made increased advances into Irish life in past dozen years. Is astonished that Ireland has voted with the Soviet block regarding Red China.

Correspondence between J. Christopher Napier, Bombay Street Housing Association, +McQuaid, and + Philbin, Belfast, regarding Mr. Napier’s request that their collection to re-build this area in Belfast be announced at Masses.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from + William J. Philbin thanking him for the cheque for £25,000 for the needs of the Belfast Catholics in their sufferings.

/2. 31 May Copy of a typed letter to Joseph P. Walshe from +McQuaid, enclosing the letter from the Belfast President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Suggests that the solution may be in insisting on proof that work is available before they exit.

Copy of typed letter to Bishop Daniel Mageean from + McQuaid informing him that he had asked Dr. Newman not to give lecture in Belfast in connection with Dr. Hildegarde Mayr’s visit as he is concerned about her activities. She is Secretary of a group affiliated to a Communist world front. He refused to see her.

McCarthy, Mary, Counihan, Mary, Stack, Siobhan, Listowel, Co. Kerry. They are seeking the support of the Archbishop to have the Marriage Rule for teachers modified. 13/11ea. 27 July 1969 McCarthy, Nodlaig, 24 Windsor Park, Belfast 9, seeking an appointment. 13/11eb. 7 January -28 June 1971 McCarthy, Nodlaig, 1 Clyde Road, Dublin 4, thanking + McQuaid for his Christmas card, for making it possible to interview Cardinal Heenan, his Pastoral Letter and seeking an appointment.