Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 20 March 1929.
Mr Harry Day
, Southwark Central
asked the Secretary of State, for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Mr. Horace Frost, of Watton, Norfolk, who has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment by a Turin magistrate because he had refused to comply with a request to show his passport to two persons who were fellow travellers with him in a train crossing the Italian frontier from Men-tone into Italy; whether Mr. Frost has been allowed to communicate with the British Consul in Turin; and whether he has received any Report from the British Consul and has taken any action in the matter?
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.