Similarly London, Mar. 27.
A Bill to give the necessary powers to the banks to carry out the instructions for blocking Czech assets in London, given by the Treasury after the German annexation of Czechoslovakia, passed through all its stages in the House of Lords today.
A Government spokesman said that the Governments of the Dominions and of India had been informed of this action, and these Governments had proposed to take similar action.
The French Government, he understood, had acted in the same way as the British Government.
He could not at present indicate the steps the Government might have to take to protect British interests in Czechoslovakia. The attitude of the German Government on Czechoslovakian external obligations was not yet drawn. The British Government must wait, until the situation was much clearer, before formulating its policy. The present measure was only intended to safeguard the position in the meantime, the spokesman concluded.—Wireless through Reuter.
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