Letter from Eamon de Valera to David Gray (Dublin)
(207/370)

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Note No. 457 of the 2nd October,¹ transmitting the text of a Resolution adopted by the Delegates to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods.² The Irish Government have taken note of the terms of the Resolution.

2. The use of Irish territory for the disposition or concealment of property unlawfully appropriated in the course of the present war would be contrary to the policy of the Irish Government. A similar view would be taken of collusive transfers of such property to persons within Irish jurisdiction. Measures already in operation render it unlikely that any such transaction in relation to this country would escape observation. If a concrete case arose, however, the Irish Government would be prepared to take such steps as seemed to them practicable and proper to secure the just restitution of the property concerned.

Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurance of my highest consideration.