Letter from Pere Jacquinot to +McQuaid stating that Canon Rhodain has been entrusted to establish a Central International Committee in Paris for the relief of Prisoners of War and displaced persons forcibly brought into Germany. The Committee will supply both material and spiritual relief. He has had difficulties but these have been overcome due to the intervention of Mr. Dulanty, Irish High Commissioner in London. He hopes to meet with the Archbishop in due course.

Typed letter to Fr. Liam Martin, Secretary, from Sean P. Kenna, Dept. of External Affairs. The sum of Frs. 28,365 owed to the Embassy in Paris to pay for the hire of a lorry to convey luggage belonging to members of the Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage from Paris to Boulogne has been paid by the Veritas Co. Ltd.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to Mgr. Gerada stating he can cancel his trip to Lourdes is necessary. September is the only month when he can ‘…get some rest’ and he had planned to go to Paris after Lourdes to meet with the Cardinal- Archbishop. That is one of the main reasons he wishes to know the arrangements for the new Nuncio.

Letter from Fr. Matt Farrell, Congregation du Saint Esprit, Paris, regarding the correspondence from +de la Bruneliere which he states is very out of character. He believes the writer may be the Officialis of the Diocese, Fr. Verhoeven as he has had similar begging letters in the past. He then remarks on the situation on the island and an earlier appeal to the French bishops which was so poor it was described as the ‘silent church’. Mexico 111a./1. 24 February 1971 Letter for +McQuaid from +Joseph Salazar Lopez introducing Francis Xavier Orendain, a prominent Catholic in Guadalajara, who wishes to send his daughter to a Catholic school. He asks if the Archbishop can recommend a suitable school. Letter from the father also enclosed. Peru

Letter from +John McCarthy, Holy Ghost Fathers, Paris to +McQuaid thanking him for his help towards the Cathedral. He has given the documents by hand to Mr. MacCauley at the Irish Embassy, Rome.

Letter from +Felix Roeder to +McQuaid regarding the destruction of his diocese in 1940. He also mentions the Catholic Institute in Paris. Diocese of Besancon

Letter from Mgr. A. Banaszak to +McQuaid regarding the Polish Seminary in Paris. Annotated by +McQuaid. 1 item

Letter from +O’Hara to Cardinal D’Alton regarding Catholic principles and policies in relation to UNESCO. He states the Holy See is concerned with the activities of the programme and policies of OMEP as they deal with the education of children of pre-school age. This is a delicate matter ‘…since there is considerable Masonic influence at work in OMEP, which is tinged with communism’. The Holy Father wants Ireland to bring its influence to bear at the Congress in Rome in August. He also asks that a competent ‘layman’ to establish contact with the International Catholic Co-ordinating Centre for UNESCO in Paris. He also suggests that the Irish Hierarchy establish a National OMEP Committee in Ireland.

• 11 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the teaching of the catechism, the Catholic Information Bureau and the need for a conference of convent primary schools. Finances and the state of buildings at Maynooth College discussed by the Maynooth Trustees. Also Irish Colleges Paris and Salamanca. 1950

Letter from +Wyszynski to +McQuaid regarding the Irish College, Paris. In Latin. 1 item