Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Palestine – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 March 1947.
Hon. Michael Astor
, Surrey Eastern
12:00,
12 March 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if correspondents and newsreel photographers of foreign countries, particularly the U.S.A., are being given every facility to report on the actions of Jewish terrorists in Palestine.
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.
