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With all your excellent coverage of the Keeler-Profumo extravaganza [June 14], how could your reporters possibly have missed getting her vital statistics? Deplorable...
...Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship, strove to embody a new, impatient, class-defying England. The moral decay surrounding the Profumo affair, he tried hard to suggest, must be blamed on the Tories. Referring to Christine Keeler's reported $14,000-a-week nightclub contract, Wilson declared: "There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its Prime Minister...
...Letter. Under friendly questioning until 5 a.m., Profumo denied misconduct with Christine. He agreed to make a sacrosanct "personal statement," assuring the House that he had committed "no impropriety whatsoever" with Miss Keeler. His fellow ministers suggested that he admit at least to being "on friendly terms with her," although it "sounded so awful," as Profumo put it. "We insisted that it must be included," explained Macleod fatuously last week, "because it was part of the truth." Against himself and the four other ministers, Macleod added, "two possible charges can be brought. First, that we were conspiring knaves, and secondly...
...Next? Some angry Tories felt that Macmillan should resign at once, but at a backbenchers' meeting the view prevailed that, as one Cabinet minister put it, "the country must not get the feeling that he is being hounded out because of Christine Keeler. Our party would never recover from that...
Decency is often a question of style. Many Britons feel that there was nothing wrong, or at least new, in a Cabinet minister having a mistress. But there is a slightly snobbish feeling that Christine Keeler and her set really were a bit too casual. Although in Britain the official mistress has never quite reached the glittering status she has in France, the great and small affairs of the past were more likely to be quiet, settled, near-permanent arrangements. A new factor, says Daily Mail Columnist Anne Scott-James, is the "sleaziness of the crowd with which...