An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (58 page)

18
. Anonymous letter [probably written by Charles Gale, former general manager of the Token Construction Company] to Director of Public Prosecutions, 11 December 1946; anonymous postcard to Chief Commissioner of Scotland Yard; report by Detective Inspector A. Bishop, 7 March 1947, MEPO 3/2657.

19
. Niall Ferguson,
High Financier: the Lives and Times of Siegmund Warburg
(2010), p. 184; Bracken,
My Dear Max
, p. 152.

20
. Anthony Crosland, ‘The Case against Takeover Bids’,
Listener
, 2 September 1954, p. 347; Goronwy Rees,
The Multi-Millionaires
(1961), p. 139; Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, ‘Sounding Brass’.

21
. Donald Coleman,
Courtaulds
, III (1980), p. 24; Martin Weiner,
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850–1980
(1981), p. 150; Sampson,
Anatomy of Britain
, p. 505.

22
. Richard Sheppard, ‘Seven Keys to Good Architecture’,
Twentieth Century
, 171 (winter 1963), p. 148.

23
. Weidenfeld,
Remembering My Good Friends
, pp. 165, 270–71;
Jeremy Banks, ‘Charles Clore: Country Squire’,
Queen
, 8 May 1962, p. 70; Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, p. 43.

24
. Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, pp. 44–5.

25
. Henry Fairlie, ‘Why so few lifemen in the Lords?’,
Time & Tide
, 6 January 1961, p. 6; Simon Raven, ‘The Listener’s Book Chronicle’,
The Listener
, 12 July 1962, p. 69.

26
. Personal recollection; Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, p. 46.

27
. Sir Cecil Beaton,
The Years Between
(1965), p. 53; Charles Ritchie,
The Siren Years
(1974), p. 68; Sweet,
West End Front
, pp. 82, 91, 95.

28
. Gordon,
Two Tycoons,
pp. 35–6; John Gale, ‘Jack Cotton Explains’,
Twentieth Century
, 171 (summer 1962), p. 82.

29
. Gale, ‘Cotton Explains’, p. 78; Rayner Heppenstall, ‘The Month’,
Twentieth Century
, 166 (October 1959), p. 297.

30
. Sampson,
Anatomy of Britain,
pp. 416–17; Gale, ‘Cotton Explains’, p. 77; Sir Osbert Lancaster,
Mixed Notices
(1963), p. 27 (reproducing cartoon of 10 April 1962).

31
. Robert Head, ‘Tycoon Cotton Quits’,
Daily Mirror
, 4 July 1963, p. 1.

32
. Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, p. 175.

33
. Express City Editor, ‘Sergt Flack the Property Magnate dies at 47, alone in his flat’,
Daily Express
, 23 March 1963, p. 7.

34
. Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, pp. 169–70. Flack’s arms were blazoned: Or, a cross floretty azure, and two Flasques gules masoned argent; with, as a crest, a seahorse argent, scaled and finned azure, holding a silver Flask corded Or.

35
. Gordon,
Two Tycoons
, p. 173. Prince von Loewenstein was the greatgrandson of Lord Pirbright, a forgotten Victorian financier with Rothschild blood.

36
. Amos Oz,
A Tale of Love and Darkness
(2004), pp. 183–84.

37
. Green,
Rachman
, p. 11.

38
. Green,
Rachman
, p. 14.

39
. Green,
Rachman
, pp. 7, 64.

40
. Green,
Rachman
, pp. 26, 28.

41
. Anthony Powell,
The Acceptance World
(1955), p. 1.

42
. ‘Full House in Notting Hill’,
Economist
, 9 December 1961, p. 1033.

43
. Green,
Rachman
, p. 41.

44
. Christopher Isherwood,
Diaries 1970–83
,
III
(2012), p. 314; Irwin,
Memoirs of a Dervish
, pp. 143–47.

45
. Lynn Barber,
An Education
(2009), p. 42.

46
. Blake Modisane, ‘Sorry, No Coloureds’, Twentieth Century, 170 (Spring 1962), pp. 96–7.

47
. Green,
Rachman
, pp. 57–8, 60.

48
. Green,
Rachman
, p. 106.

49
. Detective Superintendent George Taylor to Chief Superintendent C. Macdougall, 27 July 1959, and Taylor to Chief Superintendent F. Pollard, 26 October 1963, NA MEPO 2/10077.

50
. Barry of Directorate of Public Prosecutions to Sir Joseph Simpson, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, 4 August 1959, NA MEPO 2/10077.

51
. Green,
Rachman
, p. 154.

52
. Keeler,
Scandal!
, p. 58.

53
. Green,
Rachman
, pp. 198–99.

54
. Patrick Hutber, ‘Obsessions on the Left’,
Twentieth Century
, 172 (spring 1964), pp. 57–8; Marjorie Proops, ‘So Alec thinks I’m his SECRET WEAPON’,
Daily Mirror
, 7 October 1964, p. 17.

55
. ‘Railway Land Sold Cheaply to “Spiv Tycoons”’,
The Times
, 7 July 1964, p. 8f; Donald Zec, ‘The Britain I Want to See’,
Daily Mirror
, 25 September 1964, pp. 16–17.

Seven: Hacks

1
.
Stanley Cohen,
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
(1972), p. 45.

2
. W. T. Stead, evidence to Royal Commission on Divorce, 21 December 1910, Q 43403.

3
. Hugh Cudlipp, ‘Sex, Crime and the Press’,
Daily Mirror
, 12 November 1953, p. 2.

4
. Cyril Connolly, ‘This Gale-Swept Chip’,
Encounter
, 21 (July 1963), p. 95.

5
. Sir Michael Redgrave, ‘Expendable Faces’,
Twentieth Century
, 169 (February 1961), p. 146; Ruth Langdon Inglis, ‘An American View of England’,
Twentieth Century
, 173 (Spring 1965), pp. 90–1; Tom Mangold, ‘Procter-Land Paradise’,
British Journalism Review
, booksaboutjournalism.com/procter (accessed 7 August 2011).

6
. Peter Wildeblood,
Against the Law
(1955), pp. 29–32; Arthur Christiansen to Lord Beaverbrook, 6 March 1952, HLRO BK H/155; Adrian Bingham,
Family Newspapers?: Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press, 1918
–
78
(2009), p. 27.

7
. Ronald Knox,
Double Cross Purposes
(1937), p. 21.

8
. ‘The New MAN!’ and ‘The Sins of Mayfair!’,
Sunday Pictorial
, 6 March 1939, pp. 6, 10.

9
. Mary Soames,
A Daughter’s Tale
(2011), p. 342.

10
. Stanley Evans, House of Commons debates, 28 July 1949, 467, col 2774. The so-called ‘Little Kinsey’ report was published in a five-part serial in the
Sunday Pictorial
from 3 to 31 July 1949. Several historians and sociologists, who refer to it in their writings, have plainly never looked at it. This Mass Observation work is most easily accessible, and intelligently analysed, in Liz Stanley,
Sex Surveyed 1949–94
(1995).

11
. ‘Press Council View on “Sex Exploitation”’,
The Times
, 28 October 1953, p. 8e; ‘Press Council Conclusions on Hanging Controversy’,
The Times
, 2 May 1956, p. 6e (for the defiant insolence of the editor of the
Daily Sketch
when the War Office complained of the heartless harassment of the widow of a soldier killed in Cyprus).

12
. ‘Exploitation of Sex’,
The Times
, 25 November 1953, p. 4c; Sir Victor Gollancz,
More for Timothy
(1953), pp. 211–12, 306; C.S. Lewis, ‘After Priggery – What?’,
Spectator
, 7 December 1945, p. 536.

13
. Cudlipp, ‘Sex, Crime and the Press’,
Daily Mirror
, 13 November 1953, p. 2; Cecil King, ‘The Morality of the Popular Press’,
Twentieth Century
, 171 (Spring 1963), p. 99.

14
. Lord Mancroft, House of Lords debates, 13 March 1961, 229, col 608.

15
. Sir Richard Glyn, ‘The Responsibilities and Defects of the Press’,
The Times
, 22 March 1963, p. 13e. For the clamorous occupation by journalists and photographers of the garden of a Bromley house containing children whose three mothers had been killed together in a motoring accident, see Gillian Lynne,
A Dancer in Wartime
(2011), p. 8.

16
. Harry Street, ‘Privacy and the Law’,
Twentieth Century
, 170 (Spring 1962), p. 39.

17
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, p. 405.

18
. William Gerhardi, ‘Hard Sharp Point’,
Spectator
, 16 March 1962, p. 331; Ephraim Hardcastle, ‘When Sir John threw a chair at his sister’,
Sunday Express
, 21 July 1963, p. 5; Sir Isaiah Berlin,
Personal Impressions
(1980), p. xxvi; Berlin, ‘The Anglo-American Predicament’,
Listener
, 42 (29 September 1949), pp. 518–19, 538; ‘Mr Berlin’,
Evening Standard
, 3 October 1949; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries
,
II
, p. 58.