TREATY OF LAUSANNE (TURKISH CLAIMS).

HC Deb 08 July 1925 vol 186 cc435-6W

Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a Turkish national entitled to restitution of his property under the Treaty of Peace of Lausanne is entitled to receive 20s. in the £, even if such property had been held at the outbreak of War by an enemy bank established in Great Britain and wound up under the Trading with the Enemy Regulations, provided that the final surplus of assets available from such liquidation, after satisfying Allied and other non-enemy interests, is sufficient to satisfy Turkish nationals?

Mr. SAMUEL

I have been asked to reply. The question raises a legal issue on which His Majesty's Government are not empowered to give an authoritative ruling. Any claim of the sort would of course receive due consideration by the competent authority, and the claimant, if not satisfied, would have a remedy in the proper court.