Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance. – in the House of Commons at on 9 September 1941.
Sir Kingsley Wood
, Woolwich West
The securities in question, as I have already explained, were acquired by the Treasury at market price, and there was no infraction of an agreement between lenders and borrowers. As I do not accept the view expressed by my hon. Friend in the first part of his Question, I am not ready to give an assurance of the kind he suggests.