Letter from Frederick H. Boland to John W. Dulanty (London)

Dear High Commissioner,
I wonder whether you have heard anything from the Australians since about the official title of their first representative in Dublin?

We are much struck here by the persistent use of the word 'Minister' in Australian Press cables dealing with the appointment, not only of Dignam, but of the new Australian representative in South Africa. You may have seen the article on the front page of the 'Sunday Independent' of the 19th May in which that title was used throughout.¹

If you are talking to the Australian High Commissioner, perhaps you would take the opportunity to make fresh, but very gentle, soundings. We would, of course, immediately drop the effort to settle the matter on the official plane if we thought there was any prospect of an official title more in keeping with our ideas coming to be established by degrees as a result of actual usage.