Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance. – in the House of Commons at on 24 May 1937.
Mr Wilfred Paling
, Wentworth
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any information to give the House on the international situation?
Viscount Cranborne
, Dorset Southern
I have no general statement to make.
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.