Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Colonial Empire – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 February 1948.
Sir Gifford Fox
, Henley
12:00,
4 February 1948
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what arrangements have been made in each of the principal British Colonies to deal with the problems of the dollar cost of American cinematograph films consequent upon the dollar crisis.
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.
