Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Spain – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 February 1954.
Mr Hector Hughes
, Aberdeen North
12:00,
17 February 1954
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that the Spanish Government, in January, 1954, refused visas to Mr. Percy Knight, National Organiser of the National Union of Seamen and a distinguished British trade unionist, and Mr. Saul Rose, the Secretary of the Labour Party's International Department, both British citizens of repute; if he will inquire from the Spanish Government why these visas were so refused; and make a statement on the subject to this House.
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.
