Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Russia. – in the House of Commons at on 16 June 1924.
Mr William Ormsby-Gore
, Stafford
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has made or will make inquiry of the British representative in Moscow as to the authenticity of a reported statement by Mr. Trotsky, which has received wide publicity in the European Press, to the effect that preparations are being made for an attack on Rumanian Bessarabia as a first step toward the seizure of Constantinople?
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.
