Oral Answers to Questions — Bulgaria – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 27 Hydref 1947.
Mr Tufton Beamish
, Lewes
12:00,
27 Hydref 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on what grounds the British Political Representative in Bulgaria was instructed not to attend the Fatherland Front Parade on 9th September.
Mr Christopher Mayhew
, Norfolk Southern
The attendance of the British representative would not have been consistent with the disapproval with which His Majesty's Government viewed the contempt for human rights involved in the trial of Nikola Petkov and the dissolution of the Agrarian Party, which had just taken place. My right hon. Friend therefore instructed the British representative not to participate in those ceremonies.
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.
