Oral Answers to Questions — China. – in the House of Commons am ar 8 Gorffennaf 1925.
Mr Neil Maclean
, Glasgow Govan
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any request from the Shanghai Municipal Council or from representatives of the business houses in Shanghai that the British Government should make a forcible Intervention to restore normal conditions in Shanghai?
An intervention is when the MP making a speech is interrupted by another MP and asked to 'give way' to allow the other MP to intervene on the speech to ask a question or comment on what has just been said.
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.
An intervention is when the MP making a speech is interrupted by another MP and asked to 'give way' to allow the other MP to intervene on the speech to ask a question or comment on what has just been said.
