Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Military Service. – in the House of Commons at on 16 January 1940.
Mr William Dobbie
, Rotherham
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the inconvenience caused to many young men in the railway and other services who are working a long way from home, by the short allowance of time, when they are called to the Colours after having attested; and will he consider making the notice to report for service seven days instead of three days?
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.
