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Laborites' indignation boiled even higher with the disclosure that a bundle of 25 letters from "high Admiralty officials" had been found in Vassall's flat. After three days of wild rumor, fully exploited by the Laborites, Prime Minister Macmillan ordered the correspondence published. Contrary to gossip, it turned out to be about as intimate as an Admiralty corridor. Addressed to "Dear Vassall" or "My Dear Vassall," the letters were mostly from the spy's former boss, pleasant, plodding Thomas Galbraith, 45, a Scottish M.P. who was Civil Lord of the Admiralty (roughly equivalent to U.S. Under Secretary...
While the letters cast no doubts on Galbraith's loyalty and contained no suggestion of homosexuality, they nevertheless showed him as naive, overly trusting and unduly chummy with his lowly underling. Macmillan accepted his resignation, provoking anguished protests of "McCarthyism" and "guilt by association." Still, while Galbraith may or may not have been made a scapegoat, the fact remains that the British security system appears to be worthy of Colonel Barmitage...
Please find enclosed a copy of my letter to Prime Minister Macmillan. You have my congratulations for winning the Nobel Prize...
...general disarmament. There is no real reason to believe that this adamant position has changed; it is one thing to agree to let inspectors-and from the Red Cross, at that-on Cuban soil, another to let them into Russia. Still, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan rushed off a note to Moscow suggesting that the way might soon be opened for the first stage of disarmament...
Essentially, this foursome does not slaughter sacred cows but slyly milks them for irreverent merriment. The irreverence extends to God, Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, nuclear defense, bombs A-through-H. international relations, race relations, the Battle of Britain, the royal family, hale and hollow clergymen, logical positivism, concert singers and pianists, capital punishment, and buyers of pornographic books. British dithering and deadpanning account for as many laughs in these skits as the lines themselves, but plenty of verbal darts...