Captain CAZALETasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what action he is taking as a result of the representations he has received regarding the revision of the railway pension law in Argentina whereby many British subjects will lose their pensions if they cease to become domiciled in Argentina?
§ Mr. EDENHis Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Aires drew the attention of the Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs on 22nd August to a decree, which was about to be submitted to Congress, amending the Argentine Railway Pensions Act in such a way as to render it impossible in practice for British pensioners to reside in the United Kingdom. The decree was subsequently passed by the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on 7th September, and His Majesty's Ambassador thereupon, at the request of the local managers of the British-owned railway companies, addressed an official note to the Argentine Government on 13th September pointing out the injustice imposed on the British pensioners affected, and requesting that the relevant, provisions of the new decree should be modified. I am informed that 349W the decree was not passed by the Argentine Senate, which rose at the end of September. In the meantime, I can assure my hon. and gallant Friend that this matter will not, however, be lost sight of.