Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Iran. – in the House of Commons at on 1 October 1941.
Captain Leonard Plugge
, Rochester Chatham
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he proposes to take over the Iranian Post Office which controls telegraph radio communications with Berlin and Rome?
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.
