"Violent crime, marriages breaking up, exploitation of sex in periodicals Now ... we find to our dismay that the vices of Sodom and Gomorrah appear to be rife among us.

"If they become common, then retribution will not be found in earthquakes and conflagration, but in something more deadly and insidious-the poisoning of the moral sense.

"The moral law is weakened partly because the dogmas of Heaven and Hell no longer grip and control conduct. Partly because wars have shaken faith in a providential order. Partly also because of the development of science, which teaches strange new doctrines of physiology and psychology, tending to weaken individual responsibility. This broadminded view... . . that would lead us to be tolerant in these matters. . . is quite false and very harmful . . .

"A great deal of nonsense is talked about this quack psychology. We should return to common sense: rules of conduct should be based on universal moral law." (Then) "we may indeed be on the eve of a new Elizabethan age to far surpass the old one in dignity and greatness."

THE PEOPLE OF SUNDAY: "Male Vice Cleanup Has Started." Home Secretary Sir David Fyfe has urged magistrates to inflict maximum penalties on men found guilty of importuning.

Military Intelligence instructed to check on men in Government Security Departments suspected of mixing with "perverts."

ROYAL COMMISSION to study subject urged by Dr. Donald Soper, President of Methodist Conference, who said subject should be removed from realm of sensation.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER discusses history and influence of inversion.

Ewan Butler in TIME & TIDE: "The chain and whip were not proper treatment for lunacy; is prison right for homosexuals?"

J. B. Priestley in NEWS CHRONICLE: "Even if our sexual life were worse, there is still too much ill-informed sweeping denunciation. Too many clerics who worry in public about the sexual morals of our time accept the stockpiling of bombs. The accusing finger is pointing in the wrong direction."

SPECTATOR: "Homosexuality probably much commoner than most people recognize, but where is the evidence of any new epidemic?"

THE SUNDAY CHRONICLE seemed ready to claim the entire campaign as its own invention, receiving "support from people prominent in all walks of life." "We fight against Evil things."

Rev. Wilks, vicar of Burbage: "God deliberately used the SUNDAY CHRONICLE as His agent to start the fight against this social evil."

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