to attempt any real integration of the group into practical social patterns, it is small wonder to me that our congress has designated us as "security risks." The wonder may be that the MacCarthyites haven't succeeded in having us branded as outright traitors and executed along with thousands of heterosexuals who only looked like queers!

Mr. Singer next quotes Rebecca West who says that the psychotic will not hesitate to take sides against his country, even to its deliberate destruction. because he hates people in general, and the world of harsh reality. Undoubtedly Mr. Singer and Miss West are right.

But please, why did not either of them tell us who and what makes the psychotic in the first place? Is not the cause a part of the psychology of espionage too? And is not the psychotic shaped by that world of reality he has been forced to hate in his struggle to survive, those people who never let him forget that his is the disturbed personality, the abnormal case, the unstable in thought, feeling and behavior, the perverted, the antisocial, even the "moral imbecile" and the countless other cruel, only comparatively true terms that are hurled at him every day of his life?

Whose fault is it that many of us may be accurately described as weak, immature and childish in character? Is it ours alone? And when we are brave enough to admit our shortcomings, and courageous enough to attempt to help and educate our own kind and the rest of society to our needs and importance, why is it well nigh impossible to gain the support of the recognized leaders in literature, journalism, education and even psychology? Is that our fault too? Both Miss West and Mr. Singer have written significant books on treason and espionage, yet strangely enough, to my knowledge, neither has betrayed the slightest interest in methods of circumventing this crime, (other than by systems of curtailment of security risks and counter espionage), or preventing the hundreds of thousands of possible dupes of an alien government from falling into the traps they can see and describe so clearly.

These two writers are in no minority and certainty do not deserve to be singled out for this column's questions or comments. They are typical of thousands of others of recognized talents, thousands whose smallest indication of constructive interest would make the task of straightening out our own affairs much easier. Therefore, it is with deep gratitude that I salute Mr. Norman Mailer, the author of The Naked and The Dead, for his fine article in the January issue of One. May he be the first of a great list of progressive artists to give his encouragement to a better world for all mankind.

-James Barr

"SECRET IN A BOTTLE"

Pageant Press, NYC-1952

Flint Holland

The writer's primary thesis is the not entirely unfamiliar one that repressed homosexuality is the cause of both alcoholism and stammering. This subject is presented briefly (48 pages) in the form of hypothetical interviews between a psychological counsellor, a young male patient, and the father of the latter.

In the opinion of this reviewer, the book's major merit is that it is highly thought-provoking, and that the author's contentions are supported, at least in part, by the practical experiences of many homosexuals in modern society. On the other hand, the book's major fault seems to be that it compresses a massive and very intricate subject into a far-too-brief exposition. It creates an impression that repressed homo-sexuality is the only cause of alcoholism and stammering, and only very careful reading will suggest that the author's conclusions are not actually at this uncompromising extreme.

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