These nocturnal resorts are located mostly in Sankt Pauli-a sinful sector fabulous for over a century with which, in our own land, we may compare only the seething fleshpots of San Francisco's Barbary Coast, converted to a drab respectability now for decades.

Journeying from the Elbe down to Frankfurt-am-Main I found a city of American G.I.'s, many tell-tale vacant lots, tortured ruins, rows of temporary one-story shops, and isolated modern structures that audaciously rear their glass and steel crowns over a view that is, for now, colorless and depressing.

Frankfurt, however, can be proud of having the largest and best organized club for the minority in all Germany. Under the idealistic heading of "Organization for an Enlightened Way of Life," this club boasts roomy, pleasantly decorated quarters with restaurant, bar, and dance floor. There exists here a serious esprit de corps among its members that has not been discoverable as yet-to any marked degree-among our scurrying American groups. Those perennial German virtues of methodical order, group responsibility and discipline form the marrow of our brethren in Frankfurt.

The average German male will prove colorful to any tourist who has not yet become accustomed to short leather pants and sturdy bronzed legs. In this country, as well as parts of Switzerland and Austria, these are worn all the time. Compared to the Danes with their child like charm, the Germans seem overly serious and philosophical. It is not for nothing that theirs is named a land of "poets and thinkers." Actually, their hardy, large-boned builds seem completely congruous with their generally earnest nature.

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The long and concerted post-war efforts of our German cousins to remove the prejudicial Paragraph 175 from the Penal Code will, I believe, meet with ultimate success. Ironically, this paragraph is one of the very few left-overs from the twelveyear reign of Herr House-Painter that was kept in the Penal Code of the Bonn Republic. As some may recall, the sexual equality which our people are seeking to regain was, in fact, legally granted during the first year of the old Weimar Republic (1919-1933). This law continued in force until it was fatally usurped by the present law in 1934.

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Whenever one thinks of Switzerland he usually conjures up a vision of noisy cuckoo clocks, William Tell, and precision watches. None of these images belies the country's quaint and sedately prosperous appearance. In fact, this nation of picturesque neutrality runs the risk of being pleasant and sedate to a point of enervation. Like the Scandinavian countries, together with France and Holland, everything is legal in this chocolate bar land. It has been that

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