No. 95 NAI DFA 422/180 Part 1

Letter from Joseph P. Walshe to Kees van Hoek (Dublin)

DUBLIN, 13 June 1941

Dear Mr. van Hoek,

I have your letter of the 9th June.¹ I am afraid I could not agree to your writing anything about our new quarters.² We prefer to have as little publicity as possible about the Department, as we feel the less the Civil Service appears in the limelight the better. But I shall be very glad to see you at any time – without your notebook!

Yours sincerely,
[stamped] (SIGNED) J. P. WALSHE

¹ Not printed.

² See No. 61. Iveagh House on St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, was presented to the Irish state by the 2nd Earl of Iveagh, Rupert Edward Cecil Guinness (1874-1967) in 1939. It became the headquarters of the Department of External Affairs on 14 May 1941.

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