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...Harold Macmillan's government, sex scandals have been as absorbing a British pastime as royal weddings. Six years ago, Trade Secretary Cecil Parkinson was forced to resign when it became public knowledge that his mistress was about to bear his illegitimate child. Sixteen years ago, Air Force Minister Lord Lambton lost his job when photographers caught him in bed with two prostitutes. As the tabloids breathlessly chronicled the latest ado, political circles in London fell into that giddy state that only a really juicy scandal can produce. Even a former Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Whitelaw, commented sarcastically: "Very interesting...
...Lambton, Australia...
...Longford, a sturdy Roman Catholic peer and tireless moralizer whose antismut campaigns have earned him the nickname "Lord Porn." She is an avid collector-of white dresses (she has 100), and of personages literary, theatrical and political. Her companions have included Author Norman Mailer, Actor Robert Stephens and Lord Lambton, the Tory M.P. who quit Parliament last year after being photographed in bed with a call girl...
...Film. As for Lord Lambton, that was a more serious case. According to Diplock, Lambton indiscreetly and unwisely paid for his whoring with checks signed in his own name and went openly to a prostitute's apartment, where he was filmed "naked on a bed with Norma Levy and another girl, both also naked." Worse yet, Lambton combined pot with his popsies. Marijuana or cannabis-for those readers of the report who might never have heard of it-was described as "a soft drug which produces changes in mood and perception and gives a feeling of irresponsibility." Diplock added...
...this is no crim inal offense." The security risk seemed relatively minor. Declared Diplock: "Such indiscretions are more likely to occur in the kind of conversation that takes place at cocktail parties or around a dinner table than in what might be said to a prostitute in bed." In Lambton's case, whatever security risk there was existed not so much in bed but behind the walls, where cameras and tape machines were recording instant history. Here was the danger that blackmail material might find its way into the hands of foreign intelligence agents...