Oral Answers to Questions — Russia. – in the House of Commons at on 2 May 1923.
Mr Arthur Ponsonby
, Sheffield, Brightside
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, as the result of the joint resolution introduced by Mr. Porter in the United States House of Representatives in January last, and subsequently passed by Congress, representations have been made by the United States Government to His Majesty's Government with regard to the necessity of limiting the production of opium to the amount actually required for medicinal and scientific purposes; and, if so, what reply has been sent?
Lieut-Colonel Albert Buckley
, Waterloo
The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The second part does not, therefore, arise.
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.
