Volume 9 1948~1951


Doc No.
Date
Subject

No. 565 NAI DFA/5/305/57/245

Dearg code telegram from the Department of External Affairs to the Irish Embassy, Washington DC
(151)

Dublin, 30 April 1951

Your 171.1 By agreement with Miller announcement suspension [of Marshall Aid to Ireland] being made as part budget speech afternoon Wednesday 2nd May.2 Absolutely indispensable ensure no leakage information this matter in meantime. Please take necessary measures accordingly and request American authorities do likewise.3

1 Not printed.

2 See Dáil Debates, vol. 125, cols 1907-10, 2 May 1951.

3 Marginal note by Nunan 'NOT to be circulated SN 28/4'.