Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Iran. – in the House of Commons at on 1 October 1941.
Mr Thomas Horabin
, Cornwall Northern
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will undertake that no oil or other fuel will be provided by ports and bunkerage stations under British control for shipping provided by the Italian Government to remove Italian subjects from East Africa; and whether he will insist that the Italian Government themselves provide the necessary fuel from their own resources?
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.
