Part of Oral Answers to Questions — West Indies. – in the House of Commons at on 15 October 1941.
Dr. Russell Thomas:
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he can give information in regard to the numbers employed at the German Legation in Eire?
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.
