CZECH GOLD DEPOSITS
DISPOSAL ORDERS
BRITISH GOVERNMENT POWERLESS
(Received June 6, 2.20 p.m.)
LONDON, June 5,
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, stated in the House of Commons that the Bank of . England had no knowledge whether the gold deposited with it for safe custody on behalf of the Bank of International Settlements was the latter s absolute property or whether it was held oh account of others, such as the National Bank of Czecho-Slovakia.
"We are precluded by the protocol* of 1930 and 1936," he said, -from preventing the Bank of England obeying instructions as to the disposition of such money."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 131, 6 June 1939, Page 10
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