INTERNATIONAL

News from other countries; translations and selections from homofile magazines abroad.

HOMOSEXUALITY ON H. M. S. VANGUARD AN ALARMING CASE

By A. J.

In the issue of the News of the World" of 17th Oct. there is a report of Courts Martial, held at Devonport, when 5 sailors from the HMS Vanguard were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and dismissal from the Service, and to terms of detention for having committed acts of impropriety. Only one of the sailors was 21. The others were 19 & 20. There can be little doubt none of the men had any previous convictions.

Since the cases were dealt with by Courts Martial, information must have been laid. in the first place, by members of the crew of the ship (at least it is difficult to imagine anything else), which means these men were given away" by their pals. (So-called: pals). That men of the Senior Service could stoop to such loathsome methods is appalling. But it is not surprising, if one remembers the shocking Witch Hunt that is going on all over Britain to-day, in regard to anything of a homosexuel nature. Fathers are spying on their sons, sons on their fathers, sisters on their brothers, and, as for neighbours! They do nothing else but spy on all and sundry.

It is often said these methods were employed by the Nazis. They probably were: they certainly are employed, wholesale, in regard to all things homosexual in Britain to-day. And, in a little less degree, to everything and anything of a sexual nature.

,,Snooping" and "Pimping", in Britain, now are encouraged. Pimps and snoops, once thought of as being beneath contempt are now encouraged by the powers that be. And this is not the end of the story.

About three years ago, a homosexual, living in the West End of London, was visited by a number of Guardsmen. One used to bring the other.

Once one of these soldiers approached another soldier and invited him to go to see this man.

He gave an evasive reply, and later reported what had happened to his superiors. Then an NCO got busy, and got into touch with Scotland Yard who interviwed a great number of the men who were supposed to have visited this man. In the end a Scotland Yord Officer AND this wretched NCO went together to watch the man's flat. The result of this pimping was that the man, and three or four of the Guardsmen, were arrested and got various terms of imprisonment.

So it seems this odious spying is not confined to members of the Royal Navy, but has spread into other services, as well.

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