Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Palestine. – in the House of Commons at on 22 April 1929.
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood
, Newcastle-under-Lyme
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has any information to give the House as to the mediation to be exercised by the Vatican between the clericals and the Labour Government of Malta?
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.
