531 - 29 September 1957

531

29 September 1957

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Report in The Sunday Independent. Ireland’s proposal got a lukewarm reception from Western Statesmen. There are grounds to believe that the American Ambassador and the German Minister may have been instructed to convey the feelings of their governments that the proposal would have been better left unsaid. The plan for withdrawal, it is believed, would heavily favour Russia. Mr. Aiken’s speech could be turned into propaganda by the Russians who saw it as constructive from a Catholic country.