Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry. – in the House of Commons at on 5 March 1935.
Mr Wilfred Paling
, Wentworth
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he will give an assurance that His Majesty's Government has no intention of abandoning its ultimate responsibility for Native policy in Southern Rhodesia?
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.
