raised against it by the U. S. Postoffice, winning a resounding victory in the U. S. Supreme Court-a victory all the sweeter in that the Court rendered one of its infrequent unanimous decisions.

Aside from the Postoffice, another prolific source of illegalities is the U. S. Customs department. Dr. Kinsey discovered this to be true, when he attempted to import from abroad materials for use in his studies, and had to wage a bitter court battle to protect his property against what in effect would have been seizure and theft. These small-scale civil service employees were presuming to live comfortably at public expense, while grandiosely decreeing what American scientists might not be permitted to study. Fortunately, this arrogant impudence was slapped down in court, establishing that it was in fact an improper and therefore illegal action on the part of the Customs officials. However, it took five years to win, cost a good deal of money, and came after Dr. Kinsey's death. Furthermore, it was won in a lower court, thus somewhat lessening its importance as a legal precedent.

Similar arrogant impudence is now coming from the customs officials of our neighbor to the north, Canada. There, minor functionaries have for some time been refusing to deliver copies of Game of Fools, and Homosexuals Today, 1956, to Canadians. Occasional copies of ONE Magazine addressed to Canadian subscribers have also been confiscated, or returned undelivered, but today they are attempting to refuse all copies of the Magazine to Canadians. Their intolerable behavior in opening even first-class mail, quite without any compunctions of decency is of course inexcusable among civilized peoples.

The unfortunate fact is that Canada appears still to be ridden by a residue of Victorian pruderies in its English-speaking sectors, and an equally reactionary clericalism in the French-speaking areas. Such an embarrassing cultural lag ill befits a great and growing nation, emerging so rapidly as Canada is into the "big-time" among the peoples of the world.

One has no intention of sitting idly by while petty little Canadian Customs officials sprout goose-pimples of horror at the alleged obscenity of Game of Fools, or of ONE Magazine. Every possible pressure on legal, diplomatic and other levels will be used to put a stop to this nonsense. ONE believes that civil servants have two primary duties: to be civil, and to be servants, but that it is not their prerogative to determine what Canadian citizens shall be allowed to read and think.

The tradition of freedom is something Canada and the United States proudly share with each other, one they do not lightly yield up. Let it never be forgotten that the step from moral censorship to political and other censorship is but a short one. The dangers are too great for the free peoples of progressive and enlighted countries to tolerate. We join with our Canadian friends in working to stamp out such mean and shameful behavior.

Oh, incidentally, Canadian subscribers ARE RECEIVING their copies of ONE Magazine regularly, anyway. It just takes a little more doing.

William Lambert, Associate Editor

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