Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 9 Rhagfyr 1947.
Mr John Leslie
, Sedgefield
12:00,
9 Rhagfyr 1947
Does the Secretary of State think it right that on the day when a brigadier goes down to inspect a camp the fires are lit whereas they are not lit on other days? That happened at Shrewsbury.
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.
