Volume 6 1939~1941


Doc No.
Date
Subject

No. 177 NAI DFA 219/6

Code telegram from Michael MacWhite to the Department of External Affairs
(Dublin)
(No. 8) (Personal) (Copy)

Rome, 15 May 1940

Situation here tense worse expected most diplomats hold aggressive steps unlikely unless Mussolini convinced collapse of Allies imminent. Students Scotch and English colleges leaving here to-morrow some Irish going with them. French embassy just now suspended transit visas until further notice.