Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1947.
Mr Barnett Janner
, Leicester West
12:00,
27 November 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether in view of the decision in the case of Rex v. Caunt, he is prepared to consider introducing legislation which will afford communities similar protection to that now given to individuals from libel and slander, which in the case of communities is calculated to create disunity between different sections of the general public and to excite hostility against the community so libelled or slandered.
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.