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...blue-bound volume entitled Lord Denning's Report (price: $1.05) had sold nearly 100,000 copies in 24 hours, an alltime record for an official document. Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition had somewhat less reason to rejoice. The report, based on a three-month investigation of the Profumo affair by Britain's second-ranking judge, dismissed most major charges and every squalid rumor of government culpability in the case. In 60,000 lucid words, Denning rejected persistent reports that other Tory ministers had been involved in bizarre sexual exploits, left no grounds for belief that John...
...relieved at the A-plus report on its rulers' morals, was chagrined by the detailed picture of muddle inside the government. Denning concluded that the Prime Minister and his advisers were naive and even careless in accepting a philanderer's denials of philandering. "The conduct of Mr. Profumo," as Denning put it, "was such as to create, among an influential section of the people, a reasonable belief that he had committed adultery. It was the responsibility of the Prime Minister and his colleagues, and of them only, to deal with this situation, and they did not succeed...
Provider of Popsies. Britain's serious press was more critical of the Prime Minister. The Tory Daily Telegraph headlined its Page One account of the report: PREMIER "FAILED" IN PROFUMO AFFAIR. The Times demanded to know why Macmillan had not himself questioned Profumo or checked into other evidence in the case, pointing out that the "Prime Minister selects his ministerial colleagues; responsibility for their fitness for office is his, and serious imputations on their character must concern him personally...
...that was handed to Harold Macmillan last week had been billed in advance as a sort of Tropic of Mayfair. Compiled by Lord Denning, Britain's second highest judicial official, the manuscript was the result of an exhaustive, three-month investigation into the security aspects of the great Profumo-Keeler-Ivanov scandal. But the churchgoing, teetotal jurist had also been directed by the Prime Minister to look into "rumors which affect the honor and integrity of public life," meaning gleeful, persistent gossip that several other ministers in Macmillan's government have indulged in profumian revels...
...Special Session. It will land with a dull thud on the party circuit. Word soon leaked that the report contains no suggestion that any ministers save Jack Profumo had been flagrantly indiscreet, or that the former Secretary for War had been guilty of any breach of security. However, the report was expected to criticize Macmillan's government for its failure to act in the Profumo case for more than a year after security agents were aware that the War Secretary was sharing Christine Keeler's favors with Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov. This aspect of the case...