Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 10 Rhagfyr 1941.
Mr Morgan Price
, Forest of Dean
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) whether he is aware that telegraphic and telephonic communication is open between Teheran and Berlin; and what steps he has taken to ensure that information detrimental to the interests of the Allies is not going to Germany by this route;
(2) what progress is being made with the negotiations for the conclusion of a treaty between the United Kingdom and the Government of Iran; and whether this treaty concerns the development of communications from the Persian Gulf for supplies to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
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.
