Volume 6 1939~1941


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No. 201 NAI DFA Secretary's Files P7

Code telegram from the Department of External Affairs to
William J.B. Macaulay (Holy See)
(No. 22) (19/34) (Personal) (Copy)

Dublin, 25 June 1940

Your 22.1 There is no reason whatever for anticipating a state of war between this country and Italy and you should do nothing to provoke the slightest suspicion that there is. We do not belong to the British Isles. If the impossible were to happen you would receive special instructions to do as you suggest.

1 Not printed.