Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 27 Hydref 1947.
Mr Richard Stokes
, Ipswich
12:00,
27 Hydref 1947
Is the Under-Secretary of State aware that I was engaged in negotiating for one of these firms for the production of excavators in order to relieve the pressure here? Judge my surprise when I found that it was scheduled for dismantling.
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.
