§ 15. Lieut.-Colonel GAULTasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign 1336 Affairs whether, seeing that the British Government under the Treaty of Versailles has been collecting from British subjects moneys owing by them to German citizens and insisting on interest on these debts as from the date upon which they were contracted, he will apply this principle to the debts due by other nationals and Foreign Governments to British subjects and claim on behalf of the latter moneys and interest due to them by the former, thereby placing them in the same favourable position as that occupied by the German creditor in respect of debts owing by British subjects?
§ Mr. McNEILLI find it difficult to follow the precise purport of the hon. and gallant Member's question, but the special provisions governing the settlement of pre-War debts laid down in the Treaty of Versailles obviously cannot be applied to pre-War debts, which do not fall under that Treaty.
§ Lieut.-Colonel GAULTWill the right hon. Gentleman consider, having Government support to the claim of a British subject against the United States Government for deferred initerest?
§ Mr. McNEILLI could not answer without notice.