Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments. – in the House of Commons at on 19 November 1941.
Captain John McEwen
, Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the number of persons working in that portion of Chatham House evacuated from London; and whether that number has increased during the last six months and, if so, by how much?
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.
