Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the Cabinet 'Ireland's position regarding proposed Commonwealth Conference'
(GC 5/32) (Item 1) (S14333)

Following consideration of a memorandum¹ dated 18th August, 1948, submitted by the Minister for External Affairs, relative to the proposed meeting of representatives of the British Commonwealth of Nations, tentatively arranged for the month of October in London, it was decided that Ireland should not be represented, as a member of the Commonwealth, at the proposed meeting.

Consideration of the question whether Ireland should be represented at the meeting, otherwise than as a member of the Commonwealth, for the purpose of discussing any particular subject was deferred pending the receipt of further information in that connection which the Minister for External Affairs undertook to procure.