Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India – in the House of Commons at on 30 July 1934.
Mr Tom Smith
, Normanton
asked the Secretary of State for India whether in any part of India any persons are now being detained for a period as long as 10 years or more without trial and without a charge being preferred?
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.
