Volume 9 1948~1951


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No. 273 NAI DFA Ottawa Embassy D/3

Extract from a letter from Frederick H. Boland to John J. Hearne (Ottawa)

Dublin, 11 February 1949

[matter omitted]

The distinction between our attitudes towards the Atlantic Pact and towards the new Council of Europe lies, of course, in the fact that the former is a purely military Pact, whereas the latter has no defence or military connotations.