Cypher code telegram from the Department of External Affairs to Robert
Brennan (Washington)
(No. 70)

Your 96.¹ When North was bombed our natural course would have been to protest to British who by occupation made it a belligerent area. The protest was not made because we are constantly telling the world the British have no right to be there. When the Americans came in they not only reinforced the belligerent character of the territory by coming there and by making it clear that it was to be their principal base of operations in Europe but they reinforced the whole partition situation itself against the Irish people. No doubt you have been using this argument.