No. 368 NAI DFA/5/305/298
Minutes from Seán O'hÉideáin to John A. Belton
and from Seán Murphy to Liam Cosgrave
'Proposed visit of Jugoslav Football Team'
Dublin, 14 October 1955
Mr. Belton.
The first we heard officially of this matter was when the London Teleprint message No. 4128,1 regarding issue of visas, was received. Had we been consulted in advance regarding the advisability of inviting a Yugoslav team here, I think it safe to say that we would have advised against the proposal, having regard to the persecution of the Church and imprisonment of Cardinal Stepinac in Yugoslavia, which formed the subject of numerous references in the Dáil and protest notes to the Yugoslav Government. 2
We understand from the D/Justice that the [question] of issue of visas is to be considered at the Government meeting to-day, and our Minister may wish to know what would have been our line had we been consulted … On the other hand, the admission of the Jugoslav team would, almost certainly, be the cause of adverse government in at least a section of the Press.3
S.O'h.
14/10/55
I agree.
J.A.B.
14/10
Minister,
I don't think the fact that the President has accepted the invitation to be present enters into the consideration. [As] far as we know the situation in Yugoslavia has not changed since the Dáil resolution [of] condemnation.
S.M.
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