Comments on enclosures to letter of 1 July, 1952, from Fr. Mangan to Dr. Nolan.

Two letters to Fr. Christopher Mangan from Colonel MacNeill and Colonel Nolan asking if he is in a position to furnish the maps.

Handwritten letter to Bill from C. Mangan. In response to a letter from Dan Nolan is seeking ‘a line’ on Peadar O’Donnell.

Handwritten report saying Sean Nolan will be going to Moscow for anniversary celebrations. The Plough got 3,000 copies out. Communists to put on another unemployed walk in Dublin.

Letter from +Harty to +McQuaid thanking him for the telegram of sympathy on the death of Archdeacon Nolan.

Notes on the reception for the new Nuncio, Rev. Sensi. The Gresham have reserved the Aberdeen Hall for the Reception after the Liturgical Reception. Drafts of invitation cards have been sent by Browne & Nolan.

Letter from Fr. John McMackin to +McQuaid Saying he is glad that Canon Hamell has consented to act as Editor until end of year. In his meeting with Browne & Nolan the question of circulation was discussed.

Letter to the Archbishop from Hilda Nolan.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities, stamped ‘confidential’. The following items are mentioned in the report: the statements from George Jeffares on the international situation and Sam Nolan on the national situation. Nolan laid stress on inadequate social services alleging that no Government in the last 30 years had tried to solve the problem. The following topics were reported on: the “Geneva Fiasco” the Manor House, Dunkineely Dr. Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and Peadar O’Donnell addressing the inaugural meeting of the Dublin Typographical Debating Society the Peace Campaign’s meeting on the 16th December 1955.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities (two copies). John Nolan was to report on the Executive Committee meeting in London but failed to turn up. On 18th July Nolan met four members at New Books, 16a Pearse Street, and told them that the London conference did not have a satisfactory outcome. On the 19th July Nolan gave a talk on ‘Emigration, a National Crisis’. Capitalism had failed the census returns showed a decline in the population agricultural production and manufacturing industries are less than half developed 60,000 unemployed. He referred to a series of lectures under the patronage of Dr. McQuaid titled ‘The Answer to Communism’.