A33, good fa~ish nart$onali8ts sill be de1ighte.d with the

Cktober, and t o laasa lercun 9t thSr an Irish paug has been formed

for the ~ t u d y of iatsrnstionaZ ralatioas, For asme of u~ the

indifferenor t o snd i p o r m c e o f iatematbarral affairs Sn Srelctnd

has bssn a aausrer o f regret and ~ V % S I anxiety, Them 2nar;y have

bem some excruse, $xi the b r a when our & ~ ~ o 2 l e were conceatratsd

.on one a ~ p e e t %n our SntexnaLional pasition, for the indifference

and misconoeytfbge which tpe aLL a h r e d fn the midst of the fight

for ;national frw&n. That %Zme has long gone by, Yihether

hv~lvAag both a4vastatges and daagerao Xt is a tmim that

n a S i m a l 2ibarty brings fntosnett f onax dutfss @ad s@s~aa@%biliti@a;r,

Sf .era do not undertab ahtsaa rtitr~gonsibilbties fntal2igeatfgg,

Ireland sill suffer* The faot i s that our +eopls, bcluding r p q

af our poP%tio%ans, r~ffrafn fndiffsrcnt to many of the factors

whiah aars making the world of to-morrow,

Sswrly evary country I know has Borne kSnd sf w Institute

for t h ~ study o f iatcr~ational a f l ~ i r s awd it 5,s of course always,

ae the p ~ e s e n t drayosal, non-ps3itical~ to be of an;). value its

study muat be ~n. t i reZy obJective, its object sa gou say "to

ascertain the factsb so that a basis say be sxrivod at for accurate,

and sr;sgonslble $ a d @ ~ n t * ~

I aai sure our yreaeat Gov@rmenf, and oxry future one, w P Z 1

tsrelcme %be gmwth of an infometit p;tblSc opinslonj 'rre kave nruch

Iseway t o nake up,

(iublished about 8/11/37)

I*B &ad to see the idea of an lxfsh Institute for f n t ~ r -

ne~tfon&P Affairs i l s not dwd, Dan Binchyand Frank L5a03ermot

offered me t o ~ x u s y r ~ c f i v ~ pre~fu~a(3y a p a r ago, but the ourport

f ~ r f h ~ ~ I & l & J was snail*

ToXkirrg of ~~rsrsfdenoiec - the new Head of the State 3ob will

wyossible*, %e% a very ffne ty;3e, Sick, ~ 5 t h bags of quPet

cherrp;rcttes. But Zf i t were offered, 1 shoul& aot be s lwpsiacd if

5% took a @sot &eel of caaxfag t o make him gPve up htts Eingaend

D i s p e n ~ r y for s public off See*

S*abscarcissssm@nt * Ths @'Bfack-outn lasted frm 6 p ,n, t 2 l l

7 &,me i%%rtti&l ~X@TCSEJBD had bee9 a c e , but this covered several

cantuna. Tt was ian extsema2y depremiag exp~sience - csmdie~

sad blue laroya and crsmred windous an& a pitorb-black night with

Tow clouds*

Mat Yoxi Earnel, ru$ batch predeces~ox at Datnzig, at a dinner.

Onae Director of the Legal Section, he a s never popular in the

Secre twiu t . At Danaf g he was said t o be ~ m o - ~ . o l i a h , but the