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Volume 9 1948~1951

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No. 419 NAI DFA/6/434/125

Handwritten exchange of minutes between Brian Gallagher (Dublin) and Frederick H. Boland (Dublin)

Dublin, 10 February 1949

Secretary
I do not know if the Minister will want to give any hospitality to Viscount Alexander.1 He has the reputation of being pro-Irish.

BÓG
9/2

Mr. Gallagher,
This gentleman is not pro-Irish and if he agreed to come to Dublin without consulting us beforehand, he was guilty of great impropriety. The M. has already seen the report & has asked Mr. MacDonald2 to mention it to the Acting Canadian H.C. - which he has since done.

1 Viscount Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Tunis (1891-1969), Governor General of Canada (1946-52). Costello claimed that it was in response to what he perceived as a series of snubs by Alexander during the Taoiseach's 1948 visit to Canada that he made the announcement in Ottawa that Ireland intended to repeal the External Relations Act.

2 Denis R. MacDonald, Department of External Affairs.

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