Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Malaya – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 March 1947.
Sir Walter Fletcher
, Bury
12:00,
12 March 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement on the outbreak of unrest and lawlessness in the province of Kedah; and to what extent this outbreak is to be attributed to the low scale of rations, particularly rice, prevailing in Malaya.
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.
