Oral Answers to Questions — Peace Treaties. – in the House of Commons am ar 30 Mehefin 1924.
Sir F. HALL:
30.asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any proposal has been made to the French Government that the condition that the period of occupation by Allied troops of portions of German territory only commences to run from the time when Germany observes the terms of the Treaty of Versailles should be waived and the territories evacuated without insistence on the observance of the treaty?
Mr Ramsay Macdonald
, Aberafan
The answer is in the negative.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
