Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 24 Mawrth 1947.
The statement the Attorney-General has just made is of very great importance. He has told us that the Allied Control Commission may be considered to be the Government of Germany, and that means that the whole matter of £20 million—or the possible £58 million—losses which were incurred as a result of black market trading in German marks now becomes the responsibility of the Allied Control Commission. As we understood it originally, these marks were to be honoured eventually by the German Government, and what the Attorney-General has told us tonight seems to complicate the matter considerably. I would like to say I fully intend to raise the matter further.