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¶ Since Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain continued, last week, to hobnob with Dutch Royalty at the Hague (TIME, April 23), it became the duty of his trusted Under Secretary, Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson to salute the House in substance as follows: His Majesty's Government considers that no useful purpose would be served by making representations to the Government of the United States respecting the repudiation by the Confederate States of their obligations to British bondholders.
Thus the Cabinet squelched several persistent committees of British bondholders who have recently petitioned for aid in dunning U. S. States which were once Confederate. A chuckle rippled across the Commons, as the sole Communist M. P., famed Shapurji Saklatvala, a swarthy Indian demanded: "Does not the Under Secretary think this another case where His Majesty's Government ought to send troops of occupation to protect British interests?"
*His pension will be £1,142 ($5,550) per year for life.