• 11 July 1942 Letters from Hugh Allen, Grace Park Road, Dublin to + McQuaid informing him of various events, including: reviving the Catholic Mind with the new name Irish Mind; relations with his employer at C.T.S.I.; states he will act out of harmony with the Archbishop; Hugh O’Neill, Coras na Poblachta (an Irish Popular Front) scorning the Bishops’ action regarding the Labour Party and the Workers’ Republic; he would have no objection to O’Neill being appointed as Secretary of The St. Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society if he would withdraw from politics; the Trade Union Bill and Professor O’Rahilly, friend of Dr. Browne; a row in the Labour Party where it looks as though the Communist element will be elbowed out; Russia entering the war and censorship; quarrel between the Bishop of Galway and Professor O’Rahilly; article in The Standard by Gearoid Mac Eoin. One copy reply from +McQuaid included.

Typed copy of a report on a discussion on County Council Scholarships at a meeting of the Rathdown Comhaile Ceannter Fianna Fail. Mrs Byrne asked that the scheme be explained. Booth saw the present scheme as ‘religious discrimination’. University College Dublin (UCD) worked the scholarship scheme for Dublin County Council. If a student wanted to go to Maynooth, Galway or Trinity they would have to apply through UCD. De Valera approached by Booth and said it was a matter for the County Council and UCD and would not get involved. He inferred that His Grace, the Archbishop of Dublin, wrote to The Standard.