§ MR. LABOUCHERETo ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government adheres to the declaration of Count von Bülow in the German Reichsrath that it is a principle of British commercial policy that Englishmen invest their capital abroad at their own risk; and whether this principle will be fully acted upon in regard to Venezuela.
(Answered by Lord Cranborne.) The principles of our commercial policy in the respect mentioned are sufficiently 1452 explained by the recent action of His Majesty's Government in the Venezuelan controversy and by their declarations in regard to it made in both Houses of Parliament. We cannot undertake any responsibility for the statement attributed to Count Bülow.