Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Spain – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 February 1954.
Sir Eric Fletcher
, Islington East
12:00,
17 February 1954
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make representations to the United States Government about the undesirability of American tanks being supplied to Spain until both British, French and other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation requirements have been fully met.
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.
