Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1935.
Mr John Wilmot
, Fulham East
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information to give on the dispute between Italy and Ethiopia and, in particular, on the notice given by the Ethiopian Government to the League of Nations Council of their intention to request the Council again to take up the question?
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.