Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport. – in the House of Commons at on 1 August 1935.
Mr John Wardlaw-Milne
, Kidderminster
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received a report regarding the detention of Mr. Mason, a British subject and an employee of the British-American Tobacco Company, by the Japanese police in Manchuria; whether this man was ill-treated by the police and was refused permission to communicate with his consul; and what representations are being made to the Japanese authorities on this subject?
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.
