Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 10 December 1941.
Mr Charles Ammon
, Camberwell North
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will consider abolishing the social distinctions in the Air Force exemplified by differential awards to sergeant-pilots and commissioned officers for similar acts of courage and responsibility and the use of different mess-rooms?
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.
