Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 5 December 1939.
Mr George Strauss
, Lambeth North
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that recently a private soldier was barred from entrance to a restaurant because a number of officers were dining there; and whether there is a general War Office instruction to hotel-keepers on this subject?
Mr Leslie Hore-Belisha
, Plymouth, Devonport
The answer to both parts of the question is "No, Sir." There is no objection whatever from a military point of view.
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.
