Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1935.
Captain Sir Peter Macdonald
, Isle of Wight
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Argentine Ministry recently cancelled the identity cards of two men born in the Falkland Islands and issued to them new documents describing them as Argentine citizens; and whether, in view of the facts as they are, he will suggest to the Argentine Government the undesirability of such a practice?
Mr John Simon
, Spen Valley
I am in telegraphic communication with His Majesty's Ambassador at Buenos Aires on this matter, but I am not yet in possession of the full facts.
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.
