§ 20. Lord SCONEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any settlement has yet been reached with the municipality of Buenos Aires regarding the affairs of the Anglo-Argentine Tramway Company; and, if not, whether he will represent to the Argentine Government the desirability that the municipality should come to an early agreement with the company, in view of the harm that further delay would do to public opinion in this country towards the Argentine and of the hardships caused to many small investors in the company?
§ The PRIME MINISTERNo settlement has yet been reached. Although there is reason to believe that the Argentine Government are fully alive to the importance of the issues involved, His Majesty's Ambassador has again been instructed to urge upon them the need for a just settlement, and it is hoped that, with the help of their good offices, a solution satisfactory both to the Municipal Council and the British interests may he found.
§ Sir ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUELWould it not be more to the point if we asked our representatives in London to bring to the notice of the Argentine Mission which is coining here under Dr. Roca the particulars of the ill-treatment to which British capital invested in Argentina has been subjected?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThat is a totally different question.