Oral Answers to Questions — Palestine. – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 1929.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood
, Newcastle-under-Lyme
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will obtain from the High Commissioner a report on the affair at Hederah, where the Bedouins have seized land bought by the Jews 30 years ago and have been left in possession?
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery
, Birmingham Sparkbrook
I have asked the High Commissioner for a report.
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.
