Dear Friends:

We shall indeed be happy to receive one of the officers of ONE during the forthcoming trip through Europe you have announced. We would like to present him at the "Club of Paris" for a lecture, to be followed by a question period.

Dear Friends at ONE:

André Baudry, Editor ARCADIE, Paris

We look forward to seeing Mr. W. Dorr Legg and his party when they come to Zurich. The tour could spend Saturday in town and when you finally know how many there will be we might ask them around to visit the office, which might interest them.

On the other hand they could all go and spend Saturday evening at our Isola Club at Basel. This is a small, but very charming and exclusive Circle Club. There is naturally dancing, and the whole atmosphere is a very friendly one.

Rudolf Burkhardt DER KREIS, Zurich

and that to take another name would mean beginning all over again.

Frankly, I am a bit bewildered. It becomes a battle of words and personality-there are some wonderful fellows here. It is tragic that some of us of good will: sincere, decent people should not make every effort to overlook small issues of disagreement.

Honestly, one does get tired of this endless parade of doctors, social workers, psychiatrists, who appear at Freedom House here, to tell us why we should be unhappy; why the world does not want us; why the Church will not accept us.

It does seem as if we had forgotten that originally we had called ourselves Gay, and that gaiety in its simplest form, the state of being merry, happy, etc., has been forgotten. I would like to see more genuine friendships made in our life. I have just returned from a vacation in Switzerland. Apparently there, as here, we make few real frineds. Our discussion groups here attract the transient, the onenight-stander. We rarely meet as friends in small groups, merely to see each other over coffee and cake.

Mr. L. New York, N. Y.

Dear Sirs:

Thank you for informing us of your proposed visit to London. Unfortunately, my husband and I are going to be abroad at that time and, as our office will be in charge of the typists, there would be little point in your troubling to call. We hope that you have an exceedingly pleasant visit to Europe as well as in England.

Dear Mr. Mortensen:

Mrs. Venetia Newall Homosexual Law Reform Society, London

We received your letter re the visit of Mr. W. Dorr Legg to Amsterdam and shall do everything to arrange meetings for him with the persons he would like to see. Mr. Bob Angelo is ill at the moment. We hope he will be better within some weeks and able to meet with Mr. Legg.

B. Premsela

C. O. C., Amsterdam

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Dear Editor:

There is no doubt whatever that without the name and properties of the Mattachine Society, the New York group would collapse at once. When the parent group [in San Francisco] set the branches free [in March, 1961] the New Yorkers felt they had built up a reputation in the city among social workers, the press, police, etc., as the Mattachine Society,

Hi Bill, Don, Sten of ONE; Al of New York;

Prescott of Boston:

I say, the more groups the merrier, for if a person joins one of them, he will hear of the others and may join them too. Also, with the various groups organized along different lines, each group will get the type which is more interested in that particular approach and so should work better for that group.

If ONE, Mattachine and Daughters of Bilitis want the more serious types, interested in educating the public and the homophile, then they should not worry about these new groups. Mr. B. Berkeley, Calif.

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