– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 March 1947.
Professor Douglas Savory
, Queen's University of Belfast
12:00,
24 March 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps have been taken by the British representative to support the communication of General Wemyss, the U.S. representative on the Allied Control in Hungary, addressed to Lieutenant-General Svirdov, Vice-Chairman of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary, protesting against the arrest of Deputy Bela Kovaks, the Secretary-General of the Smallholders' Party, by the Soviet forces of occupation.
Mr. McNeil:
I have nothing to add to my reply of 19th March to my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. Haire), except that General Edgecumbe, the British representative on the Allied Control Commission, has since informed the Soviet chairman that His Majesty's Government maintain their view expressed in their Note of 9th March, 1947.
Professor Douglas Savory
, Queen's University of Belfast
Is not this a flagrant violation of Article 2, Clause (4), of the Charter of the United Nations, under which Russia has undertaken not to use force 'against the political independence of a foreign nation?
Sir Waldron Smithers
, Orpington
What is the good of Notes?
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.
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
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During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
