Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Middle East – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 March 1956.
Mr Ronald Russell
, Wembley South
12:00,
26 March 1956
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the conference of information officers from British embassies and legations in the Middle East, which was held in Beirut last week.
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.
