Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 5 December 1939.
Sir Jocelyn Lucas
, Portsmouth South
asked the Secretary of State for War whether any of the 6,000 cavalry and artillery horses just purchased by the Allied purchasing agents in the United States of America have been bought for British account?
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.
Mr Leslie Hore-Belisha
, Plymouth, Devonport