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Volume 5 1936~1939

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No. 261 NAI DFA 219/4

Letter from Joseph P. Walshe to Charles Bewley (Berlin)
(Confidential) (Copy)

Dublin, 26 January 1939

The Minister will be glad to receive from you urgently a comprehensive report on the European situation so far as Germany is concerned and on what you consider to be the prospects of peace or war in the near future. The Minster is disappointed that no report on the international situation has been received from you since July 19381, notwithstanding the gravity of the September crisis and the predominant part which is being taken by the German Government in a situation which might at any moment bring our government face to face with issues of vital importance to the Irish people.

[stamped] (Signed J.P. Walshe)
Rúnaí

1 A reference to a confidential report that Bewley sent to Dublin on 29 July 1938 entitled 'Position of the Sudeten Germans' (Berlin reference: 43/33). This document was put on file 119/1. File 119/1,'Confidential Reports from Berlin', was confidentially destroyed on de Valera's orders on 25 May 1940 when it was feared that a German invasion of Ireland was imminent. The file ran from 14 January 1937 to 7 December 1938.

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