Handwritten report. Sean Nolan told B. O’Neill that his men voted for de Valera and PR (Proportional Representation). They did not organise disturbance at de Valera’s meeting, but some of his men did cause disturbance at the end of the meeting when provoked by Mr. McEntee. Sam Nolan had a letter in The Mail supporting PR. Mrs. Byrne is active in Fianna Fail. She is becoming a danger.

Typed letter to Fr. Diffney. Michael O’Riordan and John Nolan have gone to Poland. O’Riordan approached a printer in Dublin to print a paper. Machinery costing £4,000 would be needed. O’Riordan told him he could get the necessary funds. Jeffares refused a passport to go to China with the Cultural delegates. Trouble in the League of Decency over rules. The IHA are sending a delegation to the Minister of External Affairs asking him to appoint a woman observer to the League of Nations and UNO.

Typed report. The following items are mentioned. John Nolan has gone to Russia for celebrations. Efforts made to push The Plough. Letter in The Sunday Independent looking for money and old clothes – same address as The Plough. Garda to be informed. Mrs MacAuley and others are “all out” to change the method of calling jurors.

Biographical details of John de Courcy Ireland. Associated with R.N. Tweedy and John Nolan. Aliases John Maxwell, John Robinson, P. McQuillan. Lived in India, Italy and England. First came to notice as Communist Party member in Manchester in 1936.

Speech by Mr. Nolan, arguing that there is a case for Communism in Ireland.

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

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The main item covered concerns the meeting in Vienna between the Foreign Ministers of the Eastern and Western Powers on disarmament and peace. As Sean Nolan and Sean Murray are in London it is assumed that they are being briefed on changes in Party policy.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: the Executive meeting of 10 April discussed the “shock treatment” administered by the Soviet leaders on the subject of the late Stalin the impact on the British CP was discussed. Sam Nolan complained of the poor performance of the British CP in the recent General Election, considering their influence in the Trade Unions. At the meeting of 12 April M. O’Riordan spoke on developments arising out of the 20th Congress of the CP in the USSR. He spoke of the peaceful foreign policy of the USSR. Due to these policies the state of international tension, which was fraught with grave danger to world peace, had been replaced by a feeling of security. Nolan referred to the present visit of the Soviet leaders to London their visit to Peking would go far to consolidate the great Socialist masses of the East with their Socialist comrades in the West.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The meeting of 28th August demanded that all members secure new members, push the sales of The Irish Workers’ Voice, and the encouragement and expansion of cultural contacts with Soviet-block countries. John Nolan referred to his forthcoming trip to Poland, and Jeffares spoke of his trip to China. Such trips would soon cease to regard the USSR as the terrifying bogey-man. The names of those travelling to China listed.

Typed report, stamped ‘Confidential’, on CPI and KO activities. An article on agriculture in The Irish Workers’ Voice was discussed at the Executive Committee meeting on 2nd October. Its purpose was to focus on the failure of Government policy in that area. Sean Nolan has been promised articles from Fox and Butler regarding the trip to China.