Part of Oral Answers to Questions — China. – in the House of Commons at on 24 May 1937.
Mr Alan Chorlton
, Bury
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is yet able to give any results of the appointment of the special commercial assistant to His Majesty's Ambassador in China?
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.
