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 he can make an estimate of the amount of capital interests owned by British subjects and British corporations in China north of the Yellow River?
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.