Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 21 February 1940.
Mr. Robinson asked:
the Secretary of State for Air when it is proposed to reopen the Imperial Airways service between Great Britain and the United States of America?
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.
