PROFUMO (2) — Term from SntMaster Dictionary

PROFUMO (2)

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reference to the case involving John Dennis Profumo (1915 - ), British secretary of state for war from 1960 until 5 June 1963. He resigned after admitting that he had lied to Parliament about a n 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 33 Approved Glossary