1963 That Was the Year That Was
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1963: That Was the Year That Was
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Profumo scandal; yet that famous photograph, of Christine Keeler naked astride a concealing chair, is still lodged in our memories. The anniversary of an affair that proved a turning point for British society was always going to mean a rehashing of the case. But the early months of saw the breaking of not one but three extraordinary scandals.
Two were political and one personal — an aristocratic divorce with details that read like something from Fifty Shades of Grey — but all three were linked in the minds of press and public.
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All three combined to make that watershed moment — a whole season of scandals, when the first spring of a permissive society was just on the way. It had been summer when John Profumo, an Old Harrovian government minister, met good-time girl Keeler with her mentor — society osteopath Stephen Ward — in the swimming pool at Cliveden. That summer and maybe autumn, the affair between Profumo and Keeler flourished amid farcical scenarios of the British minister coming to visit her by the front door as the Russian agent was leaving by the back.
It was January when Keeler told the newspapers that if they wanted stories they should forget about the underworld squabbles, since there was another, better story she could sell them. And the press were in the mood for just that. They were running scared — and they were angry.
On the very day, February 4, that Profumo first asked colleagues whether he should resign, two journalists called Brendan Mulholland and Reg Foster were sentenced to jail for refusing to reveal their sources over the Vassall affair. Andrew Lloyd Webber presents Profumo scandal musical.
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John Vassall was a government clerk seconded to the British embassy in Moscow in and caught — he said — in a honey-trap operation which saw him photographed in bed with three other naked men, and then blackmailed by the KGB over his still-illegal homosexuality. Returning to England and working in various Admiralty and Naval Intelligence offices in Whitehall, he continued to leak documents to his KGB masters until his discovery, arrest and trial in October He was sentenced to an year prison term on the day the Cuban Missile Crisis began.
But through the following winter, the case continued to spiral outwards until it triggered the resignation of a Lord of the Admiralty, and sparked something of a witch hunt in official circles — the goal, as Vassall described it, being almost less to hunt out Communist sympathisers, than to hunt out gays. Find the entire archive online here. The following is the lead editorial for the first issue of Nineteen sixty-three has proved a turbulent and a humbling year. Many of the terrible events of this year have only further sundered community from community, and man from man.
But other events, some equally terrible, have revealed again that underlying unity of mankind that is sometimes disputed in theory and even more frequently contravened in practice.
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The deaths of two men did most to remind us sharply of the kind of world we live in and the values we hold most dear. Kennedy emphasized the use of reason and the necessity for peace, and the need for reason in the pursuit of peace. On this issue these two men, who were in many ways so different, were joined.
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John XXIII assumed the leadership of the oldest continuing institution in the Western world as an old man widely regarded as an interim pope whose reign would fade quietly with the passage of years. Instead, with disarming ease, he flung open the doors of the Church to let sweep through the winds of change. He saw to it that between the Church and the modem world there would be a direct confrontation, and even more, an interaction.
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He communicated his love and affection not to Catholics only, but to all men who would listen. Before his short reign ended he had demonstrated once again that, however we are carried along by the tides of events, we are not wholly the prisoners of history.