| Description | Dutch looted securities: subject to claims by the Netherlands Government or Netherlands owners. Dutch looted securities were described in the file as 'British Government and other (mainly sterling) bearer securities with paying agents in the UK; the securities were owned by Dutch people(mainly Jews) before the Second World War, and were looted from them by the german occupation authorities, who subsequently sold most on to third parties.' The file includes: notes of meetings, advice from Freshfields, the Bank's solicitor; instructions for dealing with lost bearer bonds, coupons and talons; the effect of the removal of exchange control on the 1955 arrangements concerning looted bearer securities; list of paying agents. |