Dearg code telegram from John J. Hearne to Frederick H. Boland (Dublin)
(No. 350)

Following for Secretary from Ambassador begins:

I am forwarding air mail report on Korean situation.¹ It appears to us likely with public attention preoccupied with possibility of World War III with consequent losses [..........] sympathy will be alienated from our cause especially as Britain is again brother in arms to United States. To minimise that effect and to help maintain atmosphere desirable for propagation our idea it occurs to us that a message from the Government to the President of the United States indicating Ireland's sympathy in present phase of battle against communism would possibly be favourably received and if given wide publicity would counteract to some extent feeling against us which is result of neutrality in last war and our attitude to Atlantic Pact. No doubt this has already occurred to you but if such message is in fact contemplated it seems to us here that advantage might be taken of opportunity of including in it a reference to Ireland's exclusion from UN by Russia.