PROFUMO — Definition of term in SntMaster Dictionary

PROFUMO

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John Dennis Profumo (1915 - ), British secretary of state for war from 1960 until 5 June 1963. He resigned after admitting that h e had lied to Parliament about an affair with Christine Keeler, who at the same time had been seeing Captain Yevgeni Ivanov, a Soviet attache in London. The moral and security aspects of the scandal fed newspaper headlines for weeks and nearly forced a general election to oust his Conservative Party. —SHSBC Binder 23 Approved Glossary