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Document of the day - 20th November

Volume 3
No. 304
Thomas J. Coyne (Rome) to J.P. Walshe (Dublin)

Papal Nuncio
20th November 1929

I hear from a confidential source that Dr. McRory in private letters to Rome has expressed himself as not at all opposed to the sending of a Nuncio, and also that certain Irish bishops when in Rome spoke in favour of the project. I did not hear the names but suspect, from what I have heard of their general attitude, Drs. Harty and Mulhern. Apparently one of the considerations which has weighed with the Vatican, though I gather that it has now been got over, is the possibility that a Fianna Fáil government might withdraw the Minister here. You will remember that in my report of Oct.