Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 March 1947.
Major Donald Bruce
, Portsmouth North
12:00,
17 March 1947
Will my right hon. and learned Friend's Department accept responsibility for compensation for British officers serving with the Indian Army?
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.
