Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Southern Rhodesia – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 June 1964.
Mr John Stonehouse
, Wednesbury
12:00,
16 June 1964
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and the Colonies what reply he has now sent to the formal request from the Government of India that Her Majesty's Government should intervene to secure the release of Mr. Joshua Nkomo in Southern Rhodesia.
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.
