Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy. – in the House of Commons am ar 16 Gorffennaf 1925.
Mr. MacDONALD:
by Private Noticeasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who are to go to Geneva in September to attend the Assembly of the League of Nations as representatives of Great Britain.
Mr Ronald McNeill
, Canterbury
His Majesty's Government will be represented by the Foreign Secretary: Lord Cecil of Chelwood; Sir George Grahame, G.C.V.O., His Majesty's Ambassador at Brussels; Duchess of Atholl; Mr. A. M. Samuel and Sir Cecil Hurst, K.C.B.
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.