Your letter of 2nd July, 1953, No. 305/14/192.¹

I had seen the notice in the ‘Irish Press’ of the forthcoming series of articles by Williams, but only on Saturday, the 4th July, I received the numbers containing the first two instalments (27th and 29th June). Today, I received the numbers for the 30th June, and the 2nd July. That for the 1st July is still missing.

That is the usual newspaper situation, and but for a remote brief paragraph in the Rome Daily American, I should still be without news of the result of the vote of confidence.² I wonder could important news cuttings be air mailed on the day of publication? It would help very much. The bundle of newspapers will never get through under from 5 to 7 days.

I shall write you the moment I have studied the articles to date. Without wishing to make any point of it, I think we shall have to go extremely carefully about corrections. The Madrid betrayal, so far, has been glossed over. It would be a pity to have the whole ugly business brought on to the tapis just now. Have you spoken to Dan Bryan? He will remember the recurrence of the name in question in the British black list,³ and the fact that the two chief British agents⁴ insisted on showing it both to him and to me.