MORAL ISSUE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30155, 12 June 1963, Page 15

MORAL ISSUE

‘Times’ Vieiv Of Affair

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright,

LONDON, June 1

“The Times” said today that the Profumo affair, which has rocked the Conservative Government, was a moral issue.

“Everyone has been so busy assuring the public that the affair is not one of morals," the newspaper said in an editorial “No-one would wish the security aspects of the matter to be ignored. There is no danger of this. . . “For fhe Conservative Party —and, it is to hoped, for the nation—things can never be quite the same again. The hope must be that they will become better. There is plenty of room for this . . it said. “What the Conservatives need now. and what they have needed ever since Churchill was in his heyday, is courage.

“Whether in the next few days some heads fall or none, damage has been done,” “The Times” said. “There are plenty of earnest and serious men in the Conservative Party who know that all is not well. It is time they put first things first, stopped weighing electoral chances, and returned to the starker truths of an earlier day. "Popularity by affluence is about played out, especially when it rests on so insecure a basis.” “The Times” said. “Even if the call had metaphorically to be for ’blood, sweat, and tears’ instead of to the fleshpots they might be surprised by the result The British are always at their best when they ate braced,” "The Times” said.