A service from mySociety A service from mySociety

TheyWorkForYou

Menu

Palestine (Export Trade).

Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy. – in the House of Commons at on 24 January 1940.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Major-General Sir Alfred Knox Major-General Sir Alfred Knox , Wycombe

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has considered a memorandum from the Arab chambers of commerce of Palestine asking that the restrictions laid down by Article 18 of the Mandate may be so interpreted as to enable exporters from Palestine to obtain some measures of reciprocity in negotiations with other countries; and what steps he proposes to take?

Mr. M. MacDonald:

The memorandum was presented to the High Commissioner for Palestine on 4th January. He met the signatories on 9th January and will forward a copy to me as soon as possible with his comments.

Secretary of State

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.