Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1935.
Major-General Sir Alfred Knox
, Wycombe
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information as to the activities of Chinese Communists in the province of Shensi; what is the position of the missionaries in that province; and whether there is a danger of a new communist state establishing itself in North-West China?
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.
