Author: Great Britain, House of Commons
Title: Report from the Select Committee on the Conduct of a Member with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence ..,.
Description: London, H.M.S.O. 1941. orig.wrappers. 24x14cm, 290 pp, Published in an edition of 1250 copies.. Textual facsimile illus.. Rubbed. Corner bump. Good. ¶ Parliamentary enquiry into the financial improprieties of Robert Boothby, Conservative MP (Churchill's private secretary & later ally), for his advocacy of distribution of seized Czechoslovak assets to Czechs then resident in Great Britain ["...Last week light-living Bob Boothby was found to have been guilty of more serious financial carelessness. After Germany took over Czecho-Slovakia and Czech funds in Great Britain were blocked, he acted as front man between British Treasury officials and Czech citizens who were trying to get some of the blocked funds. A Parliamentary committee investigating his activities reported last week that Go-between Boothby had received some $4,000 in expenses and had also had a financial interest of $96,000 in the unfreezing of certain Czech assets. This circumstance was made worse, the committee found, by the fact that Bob Boothby had "expressly protested" to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he had no financial interest in the Czech money matters he was constantly bringing before the Treasury, ostensibly on their merits..." - Time Magazine, Feb. 03, 1941 ]

Keywords: Lord Robert Boothby, Political History, Czechoslovakia, Parliament, Czech Assets, Great Britain, Politics, ,