With reference to Taoiseach's Wexford speech,¹ commented that it is natural for Ireland to feel anxious in view of American expansion policy, which has extended to Iceland and Northern Ireland and may easily spread across Border.

Also reported that Senator Frank McDermott conducting campaign in United States for entry of Ireland into war.

Wireless has started Irish Department conducted by Blair, formerly Paris, speaking under name of Pat O' Brien.²

Another member of the staff, John O'Reilly, young man from Kilrush, once clerk in Customs, Rosslare, who was in Channel Islands as agricultural labourer at the time of the German occupation.³

Both have assured me they will say nothing to endanger Irish neutrality.

It is believed Russian campaign, except in the South, will be over for this year within three weeks. Germans confident of taking Moscow.