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Letter from +Staunton to +McQuaid thanking him for information on Fr. McGrath’s work. He also mentions the warm weather.

Letter from +Victor Foley to +McQuaid regarding Fr. Peter Lu, who is with the St. John of God Brothers in Stillorgan. He hopes Fr. Lu can be released and allowed to work in Figi. He has already contacted +Carlo van Melckebeke, Apostolic Visitor to South East Asia, whose task it is to find work for refugee Chinese priests. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Copy of the ‘Press Conference given by the Commissioner for External Affairs, Dr. Okoi Arikpo’ regarding the incident in which Dr. August Lindt, Commissioner-General of the I.C.R.C. in West Africa was detained.

Letter from +Wall to +McQuaid regarding ceremonial duties at All Hallows. He also discusses other which they will need to attend. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Mathew to +McQuaid introducing Mr. T. Leyland who works as a Welfare Officer in Ireland. He has Been involved in providing religious facilities for Irishmen who have come to England since the War. The feelings towards Ireland have improved in England since the crisis-bitterness of 1940-1941.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Fr. John Hughes, Gonzaga College. He went to the Department this morning to personally deliver their message to the Minister, who was absent. Dr. Raifortaigh phoned him to say – coldly – that the Minister had received the letter; that he understood it to mean that Managers were not providing supervisors or correctors. This was less than the Minister expected, and had been led to expect.

Letter from +O’Donnell to +McQuaid stating he has arrived home. He mentions the health of +Duhig and a recent issue with the Labour Party. He discusses, in great detail, the issue of migration. He mentions De Valera and Cosgrove.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Griffin regarding a request to sign a protest which is being sent by the Cardinal to the Polish authorities over the treatment of the arrest of the Cardinal Primate of Poland. As he has already done something similar from Ireland he cannot now sign the English protest.

Letter from Mgr. Charles van den Ouwelant, Apostolic Administrator to +McQuaid stating the Sisters of Mercy from Cork have made their first foundation in the Far East. He wants to write to other congregations to invite them to the Philippines but seeks the permission of the Archbishop first.

Handwritten telephone message. Mr. O Broin, Secretary to the Post Office, rang to say that there was a tentative proposal to issue a stamp in 1954 to commemorate the Marian Year. The matter will not be taken further until he knew +McQuaid’s view.