BRITISH WAR DEBT
TO UNITED STATES. (British Official Wireless.) (Recieved June 10 at 7 p'.m.) RUGBY, June 7. In the House of Commons, Major Elliott (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) was askel what amount included in Britain’s war debt to tin' United States was represented by the guarantees that were given by Britain for material supplied direct to France on French account during the war. lie replied that the British war debt to the United States contained no specific items of the kind referred to. The posi tion was that, if Britain had not had any calls for assistance from her Allies, it would have been unnecessary for her to have asked for assistance from th e United States Government.
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Grey River Argus, 11 June 1932, Page 6
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