As you are aware, on the 19th January I saw the High Commissioners for South Africa, New Zealand and India and made representations to them on the lines of your Aide Mémoire of the 7th January about our apprehensions on the British Government's statement concerning their meeting with Sir Basil Brooke.

A few days ago I asked each of the High Commissioners whether they had heard anything from their respective Governments. South Africa and New Zealand had had no reply, but Mr. Krishna Menon told me today he had just received a telegram from Delhi.

He said that the British Government had conveyed to India information with regard to the conversations that passed between us and them, but no actual consultation with India had taken place. Mr. Krishna Menon said that no intimation to them had been made about Northern Ireland; in fact the British conveyed no communication at all to India about Northern Ireland.

The telegram was from Pandit Nehru himself to Krishna Menon and expressed the fullest sympathy of India so far as the Irish Government is concerned. Krishna Menon did not see his way to give me a copy of the telegram but he allowed me to read it, and Pandit Nehru's telegram concluded - 'Tell Dulanty to assure his Government that if there is any way in which we can be of help we will be glad to consider any suggestion'.