§ 77. Mr. Liddallasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps he is taking, officially, to protect British investments in Argentine and Brazilian public utility companies against gradual confiscation owing to the unfriendly attitude towards foreign capital shown by the Argentine and Brazilian Governments?
§ The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Viscount Cranborne)While I cannot accept the general supposition on which this question is based, I can assure my hon. Friend that His Majesty's Government are at all times ready to consider specific requests for assistance for British enterprises in foreign countries.