Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 4 August 1924.
Viscount Curzon
, Battersea South
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the reports of the existence of a secret treaty between Japan and Soviet Russia; and whether he can make any statement?
Mr Ramsay Macdonald
, Aberavon
My attention has been called to reports of this, nature, but so far as I am aware they are with out foundation.
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.