A disagreeable incident in the Marconi inquiry was the resignation
of one of the Unionist members of the Committee, Mr. Harold Smith. On Wednesday a letter was published addressed by him to the Chairman, resigning his seat owing to what took place on the previous Friday. "Two members of the Committee (Mr. Handel Booth and Mr. Falconer) have," he pointed out, "been publicly charged with having received and withheld from the Committee most vital infor- mation which, had it been communicated to their colleagues, must have very much shortened, and, I submit, have materially altered our proceedings." When a question was put to a witness in order to test the accuracy of these allegations, one of the two members objected, and a majority of the Com- mittee upheld the objection, thereby precluding the Committee from obtaining the information to which it was entitled.
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