No. 263 NAI DFA/6/410/68 part 1
Letter from Seán Murphy to Seán MacBride (Dublin)
(118/24) (87/49)
Paris, 8 February 1949
Dear Minister,
With reference to my letter of February 7th, 1949,1 regarding the Aide-mémoire on Cardinal Mindszenty's arrest and trial, I was today asked by Monsieur Paris,2 Directeur de l'Europe, to come and see him in relation to the Aide-mémoire which I had left with M. Chauvel.3
M. Paris said to me that it was now obviously too late to support our request seeing that the afternoon papers here carried the verdict of life imprisonment against the Cardinal.4 He explained that M. Schuman refrained from intervening up to date in the fear that he might only increase the difficulties of the situation. M. Paris stated, however, that M. Schuman now intends to ask the Hungarian Minister in Paris to come to see him and to tell him in no uncertain language that the French Government were very opposed and disgusted with the verdict.
Yours sincerely,
Seán Murphy
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