Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 January 1948.
Mr Thomas Reid
, Swindon
12:00,
28 January 1948
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at what stage the enquiry into the blowing-up of British ships in the Corfu Channel now stands.
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.
