Word: profumo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced 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...
...rest, Harold Wilson stuck to the security issue and the government's handling of the Profumo case, which he attacked as either dishonest or incompetent, or both...
...dabbing at the pouches beneath his eyes with a crumpled handkerchief. When he rose, he openly played for the sympathy of his colleagues. "What has happened," he said, "has inflicted a deep, bitter and lasting wound on me." Essentially his defense was that he had been grossly deceived by Profumo-an "almost unbelievable" culprit-and badly let down by his subordinates, who failed to keep him informed. From the back benches came a rude gibe of "Nobody ever tells me nuffin...
First, there was the Christine-Profumo affair itself, which, according to Profumo, lasted only a few months, from July to December 1961, but by other evidence possibly lasted longer. During those same months, Christine also entertained Russian Assistant Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, who had been pals for some time with her mentor, Dr. Stephen Ward. M15, British intelligence, apparently discovered only half of what Wilson scathingly called "this dingy quadrilateral." In August 1961, according to the Commons debate, Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook warned Profumo that it would be better for the Secretary...
...Vigil. In the third and most remarkable phase, Macmillan finally became aware that there was such a thing as a Profumo case. In January 1963, as Macmillan told Commons, police learned from Christine that Ward had asked her to find out from Profumo when the U.S. was to deliver certain nuclear information and warheads to West Germany (she said that she refused to do it). Macmillan was not told of this either. But while he was away in Italy, the general manager of the huge (circ. 6,500,000) News of the World reported the Profumo rumors to Macmillan...