Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 4 August 1924.
Mr Henry White
, Birkenhead East
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the Government are aware of any treaties or conventions concluded between signatories to the Treaty of Versailles which have not been registered with the League of Nations in accordance with the terms of the Covenant?
Mr Ramsay Macdonald
, Aberavon
The answer is in the negative.
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.