Part of Oral Answers to Questions — China. – in the House of Commons at on 1 July 1935.
Mr Adrian Moreing
, Preston
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether, with a view to the safeguarding of British interests in North China, he will request One Governments of China and Japan to inform him of any agreement that may be reached between them as the result of recent events?
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.