The vicar of St. James, Gunnersbury, wrote that peers and knights found guilty of gross immoral acts should lose their titles, adding "in many important circles, a man's future is jeopardized if he does not condone certain acts."

Wm. Shepherd, M.P. for Cheadle demanded explicit statistics from the Home Secretary.

Sir Robt. Boothby, M.P. for Aberdeen, requests Royal Commission "To examine existing laws," etc.

A retired policeman writes in the SUNDAY EXPRESS: "Assured of public support, the police would quickly sweep it away."

Returning from abroad, Lord Montagu met constables by arrangement at London airport, later appearing at a special court at Lymington, Hants, where he was charged and remanded on bail for one week. A crowd reportedly booed him at the court's entrance. Kenneth Edwin Hume, film producer of Polygon Mews, West London, also met the police at the airport, appeared before the court and was remanded on bail. Each pleaded not guilty. Both had returned voluntarily to stand trial, for alleged offenses with two boy scouts on August 3.

Letter in SUNDAY CHRONICLE: "Mother of young sons heartily sick at ease with which perverts contact innocent boys."

Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, criticises periodicals exploiting sex.

THE OBSERVER: "Newspapers that feature sex do great harm . . . vicious pornography, not uncommonly disguised by being accompanied elsewhere in the same paper by attacks on the scientific study of sex, and the pretended taking of a high moral line on sexual license . . . Equally harmful is the publicity given to cases of homosexuality. This question calls for a scientific rather than a sensational or merely moralistic approach."

Dr. Gorton, Bishop of Coventry, warned that Lord Samuel's speech was a challenge to the Church. "The clergy would have to do some new thinking." Joseph Wilson, a 33-year-old laborer, had his sentence reduced from six to three years, on six counts of indecency with boys, described as "not very young boys." Court lenient, as this was his first case with boys or men, although there were previous convictions for indecent exposure. Defendant hoped for a hospital cure.

In a hearing on the "unlawful wounding of an American Rhodes scholar" by his roommate, the court found it necessary to stipulate that there was no suggestion of "anything improper" in the association of the two students.

"THERE IS PROPERLY NO HISTORY, ONLY BIOGRAPHY."

EMERSON

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