Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Works – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 1 Rhagfyr 1947.
Mr David Gammans
, Hornsey
12:00,
1 Rhagfyr 1947
What is the justification for paying the owners only £500 a year when the premises are worth at least £2,000, and then gratuitously throwing away at least £1,500 of American dollars—the difference between £2,000 and £500—which the Americans would have been quite ready to pay if the right hon. Gentleman had not intervened as an intermediary?
