HC Deb 03 November 1938 vol 340 cc407-8W
Mr. W. R. Duckworth

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether debts due by British traders to Jewish manufacturers in Austria and the Sudeten areas, whose businesses have now been confiscated, should be paid to the original proprietors of the business or to the Government which has absorbed them?

Soviet Socialist Republics; and what proportion of these are carried in British and Russian ships, respectively?

Mr. Stanley

The following table shows the total declared value of merchandise imported into and exported from the United Kingdom in trade with the Soviet Union during the year 1937 and the proportions carried in vessels of British and Soviet Union nationality, respectively:

Mr. Stanley

Questions of German as well as English law as applied to the facts of each particular case, are involved, and these can only be authoritatively pronounced upon by a competent court. The debtors concerned therefore should in case of doubt, consult their legal advisers.