GREAT BRITAIN: A Case of Peers and Playgirls

"There has been for some time a general feeling of unrest in this country as to the morality of the present government." Thus wrote the Conservative Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed a decade ago, commenting on the sex-and-security Profumo affair that embarrassed and eventually helped bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan. John Profumo,* added Lord Lambton, should have resigned as soon as rumors began to circulate about his involvement with Call Girls Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies and the Soviet military attaché.

Last week Lord Lambton — whose family motto is Le Jour Arrivera (The Day Will Come) — found it...

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