Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Southern Rhodesia – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 April 1964.
Mr Albert Oram
, East Ham South
12:00,
28 April 1964
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and the Colonies, in view of the coming to power of the new Government in Southern Rhodesia, if he will give an assurance that it remains Her Majesty's Government's policy to grant independence only to a representative Government.
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.
