Dearg code telegram from Frederick H. Boland to Joseph P. Walshe (Holy See) (No. 44)

Your unnumbered telegram April 5.¹ Total sent to date is now fourteen thousand six hundred and twenty seven made up of Dublin 12,500 Armagh 1,827 and Tuam 300. Of total 12,600 was sent through Nuncio and 2,027 through you. Glad to hear Gedda will acknowledge direct to donors. He should consider wiring. There are reports that parish clergy are collecting in dioceses of Armagh and Tuam so further contributions from those sources may be expected. Will inform you of amounts received according as they come in. No news from Cashel so far. Any publicity should be confined to Gedda and action taken by Bishops here. Naturally there should be no reference to Department or Embassy as channel of transmission. Even strongly anti-Communist Italians might take exception to intervention of foreign Government in Italian affairs, however helpfully intended. Sure you will not expose yourself to personal attack from this point of view. Final sentence of our 43 refers to precautionary measures discussed in Paris.²