Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1947.
Mr Tufton Beamish
, Lewes
12:00,
17 December 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and the United States on the future financing of the bi-zonal area in Germany.
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.
