My dear Lord Archbishop,
I cannot adequately express the intense pleasure it gave me to receive Your Grace's very kind letter conveying our Holy Father's thanks. I feel, however, that I do not deserve any special thanks. The real work was done by Your Grace, without whose tireless help and intervention I would have been powerless.

I should like to take this opportunity of expressing to Your Grace my indebtedness and gratitude for the prompt and wholehearted manner in which Your Grace took up this matter.

If I may so, I feel that Ireland's contribution, for which Your Grace was in the main responsible, was of very material help to the Italian Catholics in their hour of stress and to the cause of world peace. My part was a very small one, but it was both an honour and a pleasure to have the opportunity of co-operating with Your Grace in this important task.