HC Deb 14 July 1943 vol 391 c217W
Mr. Wootton-Davies

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the policy that the importation of luxuries will have to wait after the war, it is intended that importation of so-called luxuries by neutral nations possessed of their own shipping will be prohibited or permitted?

Mr. Eden

Orders for supplies for neutral countries from British and other United Nations sources would doubtless be considered in the light of prevailing supply conditions. Otherwise, it would scarcely seem possible for His Majesty's Government to lay down what goods neutral countries should think fit to import with their own shipping resources.