Letter from Joseph P. Walshe to Robert Briscoe (Dublin)
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Dear Deputy Briscoe,
I am sorry for the delay in replying to your letter of the 25th October enclosing a copy of a telegram from the World Jewish Congress in New York.

Mr. Kubowitzki¹ was also in touch with the Legation in Washington concerning the proposal to send a diplomatic or Red Cross Mission to Hungary. Our examination of the proposal has shown it to be quite impracticable, and we have asked Mr. Brennan to so inform Mr. Kubowitzki. I am sure you yourself will have realised that it is out of the question.

We have now received a reply from the German authorities to our enquiries about the Oswiecim Hoss and Birkenau camps. They say that the rumour that it is their intention to exterminate the Jews in these camps is pure invention and devoid of all foundation, and that, if the camps were to be abandoned, the inmates would be evacuated.