Word: profumo
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...wouldn't want to see the Conservatives thrown out of power because of the Keeler-Profumo affair earlier this year. For it must be fairly said that the Tories have done their duty in the past twelve years...
...John Profumo, Great Britain's Secretary of State for War, and place all four on the luxurious Cliveden Estate of Lord Astor one sultry summer evening...
True, Harold Wilson is still something of an enigma to the public. On the other hand, Britons may find Wilson's grey manner and grim reputation a welcome change after the government's all-too Old-Boy handling of the Profumo affair. "Wilson doesn't seem very nice," mused one Londoner last week. "Good. That's what we need now. A round little P.M. with a pipe-and a dash of nastiness...
...Thus, despite Profumo's famous fall, Denning concludes that there has been no "decline in the integrity of public life." To many critics, however, the judge's verdict on the main issue he was supposed to investigate, the security question, was far from reassuring. The report concedes that Profumo "disclosed a character defect which pointed to his being a security risk," adding that Christine might well have tried to "blackmail him or bring pressure on him to disclose secret information." Indeed, suggests Denning, Ivanov may have been under express orders from the Soviet government to blow...
...report notes that the Security Service did not even know of Chris tine's affair with Profumo until 18 months later. Then, when it was finally discovered, the anonymous head of Britain's security decided "it was not within the proper scope of the Security Service to inquire into these matters," since "it was not a case of a security risk but of moral misbehavior by a Minister...