No. 264 NAI DFA/5/305/81 I

Letter from Seán Nunan to Frederick H. Boland (Dublin)

Washington DC, 8 February 1949

I beg to report that Mr. Eliahu Epstein,¹ Representative of the State of Israel in Washington, called on me on the 1st instant to request that I communicate with you regarding the formal request for recognition of the State of Israel and the exchange of representatives made to you some time ago by the Israel Government.²

Mr. Epstein said that his Government were very desirous of obtaining recognition from Ireland on sentimental as well as on economic grounds; that they had studied the history of our fight for freedom and had profited greatly thereby in shaping their own fight.

Seán Nunan

¹ Eliahu Elath, born Epstein (1903-90), Ambassador of Israel to the United States of America (1948-50).

² See No. 68.

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Letter from Seán Nunan to Frederick H. Boland (Dublin)