Ex - Enemy Property In the House of Lords on Tuesday, Lord
Buckmaster made a vehement protest against the sequestration in this country of the property of ex-enemy nationals. He proposed that the terms of the Peace Treaty should be modified in regard to property worth 25,000 or less, or in regard to the property of those who were British-born or had been resident here for twenty-five years before the War. He described his proposal as the minimum amendment of a flat contradiction of international law. The answers previously given to his plea for the Germans —that compensation ought to come from the German Government and that it was necessary for Great Britain to hold securities against the claims of her own nationals —no longer held good. He was amazed and pained that Great Britain should be alone among nations in holding private property forfeit.
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