Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 March 1947.
Colonel Sir Alan Gomme-Duncan
, Perth
12:00,
17 March 1947
Does not the right hon. and learned Gentleman recall that, in answer to a previous Question of mine, he said that the Indian Government were responsible for the pensions payable to the men with whom they had finished? If the Indian Government default—which they are likely to do—will the right hon. and learned Gentleman guarantee that the British Government will pay those pensions?
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.
