No. 345 NAI DFA Secretary's Files P12/1
Dublin, 25 November 1940
Your 336.1 It would be interesting to learn Nuncio's view of present situation. How is country receiving Catholic and national trend of Pétain Government activities? Have they not secured sufficient support to be independent of unpopularity of even important Minister? What are Laval's constructive plans for the future? What classes of people are against him? Is not some form of future collaboration with Germany accepted as inevitable? What particular political act has made Laval unpopular? What is view of ordinary people about de Gaulle?
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