Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 21 February 1940.
Mr Roland Robinson
, Blackpool
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, in view of the delays incurred by sending the Atlantic air-mail by rail to Lisbon, he will consider setting up a feeder air service between London and Lisbon to connect with the Pan-American Clipper service?
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.
