Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 May 1947.
Sir Waldron Smithers
, Orpington
12:00,
12 May 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has considered the report which has been sent to him about the unsatisfactory conditions of control in Germany and consequent waste of British taxpayers' money; and if he will make a statement.
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.
