Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1947.
Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge
, Bedford
12:00,
17 December 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has taken note of the recent public claim of the United States Secretary of the army that henceforward America would control the economic and financial policies of the Anglo-American zones of Germany; and whether he will represent to the United States Government that in any plans which may be decided on it is the view of His Majesty's Government that Britain should have an equal say with the United States.
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.
