Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Territorial Arm – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 July 1947.
Sir Edward Keeling
, Twickenham
12:00,
15 July 1947
Is the Secretary of State aware that this fête, attended by 10,000 people—which is more than the attendance at Labour meetings in Barnet in an entire year—was a splendid opportunity to get recruits for the Territorial Army? Is not the Question therefore a little petty?
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.
