THE PROFUMO CASE
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Hiss and Oppenheimer cases to the Rosenberg case, the Chessman
case, the Eichmann case, and most recently culminating, if we can
call it a culmination, in the Profumo case. That, in 1963, our great
confrontation between opposing social principles began in the
dis–
covery that a government official had been engaged in illicit sex,
was opportunistically manipulated by the party which in England
is supposed to speak most firmly for the liberal-by which we mean
the decent-values, and was brought to its only semblance of moral
resolution by the suicide of a man of the character of Stephen Ward,
should remind us that the life of reason continues to have its
troubles.
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