Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 1929.
Mr Ernest Evans
, University of Wales
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the importance to the administrative and commercial interests of the Empire of an adequate knowledge of the principal languages spoken within the territories of British possessions in Africa, he will consider increasing the facilities at present available in this country for research into and instruction in these languages?
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.
