Letter from +Rodgers to +McQuaid acknowledging receipt of +McQuaid’s letter.
Letter from +O’Doherty to +McQuaid regarding the Bishop’s meeting in June. He mentions the Bishop’s General Fund. Annotated by +McQuaid.
Letter from +Patrick Dunne to +McQuaid accepting an invitation to lunch for the new Nuncio on 3 June. He also states that Mgr. Paro has been sent to Australia and that he would have liked to have been appointed to Ireland.
Letter from Liam Cosgrave, Beechpark, Templeogue, to +McQuaid thanking him for the invitation on lunch on June. He will be able to accept.
Typed letter to +McQuaid from Oscar Traynor enclosing a cheque for £253 from the Army in response to the appeal for funds for the Catholic Social Service Conference.
Correspondence relating to the mention of the Archbishop’s name regarding the petrol strike. Apology from Lt. Col. W. Feehan, Editor.
Correspondence between Alan M. Montgomery, Chief Reporter, and Fr. Glennon requesting a copy of the Archbishop’s Lenten Pastoral. The question of all the announcements from Archbishop’s House being published was raised, as was the question of not mentioning the Archbishop without previous reference to Archbishop’s House.
Copy of typed letter to Eamon de Valera from +McQuaid returning the two copies and a booklet of Irish prayers. The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur given. Corrections indicated.
’51 Draft handwritten copy and two typed copies of a letter to His Excellency, the Most Rev. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, marked ‘Secret’. The following items are referred to: the Government has accepted the Hierarchy’s judgement; the Leftist elements in the Labour groups and Women’s Associations have repeated the calumnies of the Irish Times; the Irish Times has surpassed itself in injustice, noticed by representative Protestants; his position on the case of the Meath Hospital Committee and lawsuit ensures that the attitude of the Protestants and Freemasons will not tolerate any injustice done to the Church; Partition; the Government’s decision has thrown Socialism and Communism back a long time.
Hayes, Michael, 20 Brighton Square, Rathgar. Could ‘your people’ influence the Fianna Fail party to speak for the Amendment on the Children’s Bill.