of homosexuals "utterly medieval" and said it was a disgrace that although the government appointed the Wolfenden committee, 5 years later no political group had done anything about their recommendations because they all are "scared of espousing the cause for fear of losing votes”. . . . A British Admiralty clerk was caught spying for the Russians in London and said he had been plied with liquor at a Moscow orgy with Bolshoi ballet people and

been photographed in homosexual acts and been blackmailed. However, he also admitted he had been paid thousands of dollars by the Russians. . . . According to The Independent, the anti-negro and antiJewish publication of "the radical right" called Grass Roots has now added a new "anti," anti-homosexual after the editor's reading a copy of ONE and "deciding that the emblem of this magazine resembled the Star of David." Oy!

To The Memory Of

Robert Hull

KEN

Skilled organic chemist, indefatigible musician and musicologist, a charter organizer and executive committee member of the original Mattachine Society, and of the Mattachine Foundation.

DEAD BY HIS OWN HAND

Here was a man whose inspired response to the initial "Mattachineidea Prospectus" brought together the dedicated Five who, when expanded to Seven, pioneered and carried through the original Mattachine Society and its public expression, the Mattachine Foundation.

Bob, it was your stubborn search for logical function a decade ago, coupled with the passion and intensity of your belief in the first Mattachine Idea, that helped create within the living and working relationship of the pioneer Seven a bond even closer and more precious than brotherhood. Somewhere, in the years that followed, we who now so sadly scribble these pedestrian sentiments failed you. Forgive us!

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Was your extreme tribulation, so diffidently unsensed by such as we, to be the only way we shall ever learn how very often, and how dreadfully we fail old friends in their times of greatest need? Is this to be the only way we learn how very much we ARE our brother's keeper?

For all of us who mourn your passing, perhaps a paraphrase of the gallant lines in Dicken's Tale of Two Cities more comprehensively plumbs our feelings than we ourselves might ever contrive, "Hereafter, in a better world than this, we shall require more love and knowledge of you!"

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-HENRY HAY