Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office. – in the House of Commons at on 27 May 1924.
Sir Harry Brittain
, Acton
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will consider making a suggestion to the League of Nations that a lead should be given by that body in the direction of bringing back passports to the methods in use before the War?
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.