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 institute an inquiry into the disabilities of women in Palestine, with a view to finding out how far the Moslem prejudices against women have changed as a result of the improvement in woman's status in Turkey?
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery
, Birmingham Sparkbrook
No, Sir. I do not think it desirable to suggest to the High Commissioner that he should institute an inquiry of the nature contemplated in the question.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood
, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Does the right hon. Gentleman not think it is desirable that we should introduce western ideas into Palestine just as much as it is desirable that Mustapha Kemal should introduce them into Turkey?
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery
, Birmingham Sparkbrook
Yes, Sir; but not quite at the same rate.
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.
