HIST 386 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Plutonium, Christine Keeler, Bertrand Russell
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Summer 1963 call girl christine keeler and minister of war profumo having affair she"s also involved with naval attache at sov. hq in london sex security scandal. Macmillan resigned in 1963 because of ill health. Pm home (pronounced hume) considered unacceptable to have pm who wasn"t elected and couldn"t take part in debates in. 1957 hydrogen bomb tests plutonium plant has radioactive leak. Campaign for nuclear disarmament cnd organization of middle class, radical activists liberal non-conformists, pacifists, environmentalists non-pol. , intellectual, academic, and literary figures. Jamaica, trinidad, uganda 1962 everything else like crazy in the 60s suppressed insurrection in kenya violently. Br. killed 17,000 africans shocking callousness of the repression and that br. gov"t failed to do anything about it. Cyprus 1950s, br. try to put down insurrection by greek underground association vilify and imprison nationalist leaders, then deal with them to compromise. Britain considered joining eec euro economic community because they were lagging.
