Letter from +Ryan, Douglas, Cork to +McQuaid stating he is in Ireland and hopes to visit Dublin but is laid up with the flu. He was delighted to hear of the success of the Clonliffe celebrations. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Typed minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. The following items are mentioned in the report: T. Graham, K. Nolan and C. Clarke of The Plough to be investigated. A full report on the Czech/motor trade for next meeting. A discussion on the International soccer match between Czecho-Slovakia and the Irish Republic was held. Felt Irish public should be educated in implications of such fixtures with Communist-dominated states. Suggested this could be done by an article in the newspapers facts should first be ascertained, maybe from Douglas Hyde. Letter in The Irish Times concerning the proposal of having US bases in Ireland. Fr. Tuohy to find out if de Courcey Ireland was leaving for Australia. Could Australian Authorities be warned?

Typed letter to Msgr. O’Halloran from M. L. Burke, Supreme Secretary, Knights of St. Columbanus, giving more details on Capt. J. Douglas, R. I. George and P. Pirer. Burke’s informant tells him that he is satisfied that they are a Communist cell.

Copy of “Communist Group Discussion Method” by Douglas Hyde.

Report by Douglas Hyde on ‘Communist Group Discussion Method’. In his opinion Communist indoctrination courses are successful because of the methods they employ and because they relate to the lives of those taking the course. An intimate atmosphere is created and the lecturer leads a ‘controlled discussion’. His aim is to get two or three points accepted by everybody in the class and in such a way that the participants think they themselves arrived at the conclusion.

Copy of a dictated typed letter to Fr. Timothy Connolly from Douglas Hyde. He was recently told that Connolly Association members asked priests in Irish areas in England for permission to sell the Irish Democrat outsides churches. Hyde would like to meet Fr. McGrath to discuss his work. May be able to help him through his column. Would like to meet the two priests coming to Britain in the autumn.

Copy of typed letter to Fr. Timothy Connolly, Superior-General from James Ardle MacMahon. + McQuaid asked that Fr. Connolly contact Douglas Hyde regarding a misquote in the Irish Democrat from an article in The Furrow by Douglas Hyde.

Typed letter to Fr. MacMahon from Timothy Connolly. He has just heard from Douglas Hyde who had not seen the distortion in the Irish Democrat. Hyde will refer to it in his column in the Catholic Herald. The Irish Democrat dropped the section of his paragraph which linked the Connolly Association with the Communist Party.

Hyde, Douglas (1960). The Tactic of the United Front. London Index Limited.

Includes; copy Indenture of Assignment Reverend Brother Thomas Rahilly and others to Reverend Brother Patrick Griffin (28 December 1951); Agreement for Sale, Pierse Francis Hayes, OBE (21 February 1969); copy maps of South Presentation Convent grounds; letter from O'Flynn Exhams with copy of Order of Charity Commissioners, property Presentation Brothers to Presentation Sisters, Douglas Street (5 October 1993 - 11 June 1996).