We might send Fr. Murphy a copy of Confi (April) which contained a report on the visit to our offices of the Rev. John Nicholls (Anglican), vicar of St. Giles, parish of Camberwell, a slum area in London, who works with the Giles Fellowship, a suicide prevention group. Rev. Nicholls, having done much work in the field, did not share the attitude of Fr. Murphy. But he also doesn't have the money or publicity.

WHO'S IN CHARGE?

In Dade County-Miami, Florida, experts, including the police chiefs of the state have agreed that there has been no increase in sex deviate activities in the state, which indicated that some vice-squadders might have to be put back to regular police work. This was probably in response to the recent uproar of the Johns Committee report mentioned later. But the vice squadders have gone out of official channel's, disobeyed their superiors' orders, and are making wild clams to public civic groups about homosexual activity. If the things they claim are true, it merely indicates that they have failed completely to do their job and should be fired as the newspapers said. In Germany, the German legal custom (Untersuchungshaft) of investigative arrest, which allow cops to arrest anyone and put them in jail and keep them, claiming that if they let them out they would escape, has finally been challenged. The Bundestag has passed a bill that does not abolish the arrest technique, but does attempt to curb its abuses. Seems the newspapers finally took an interest as did some big shots who experienced the arrest. It's all right as long as it's the other fellow.

OF MANY THINGS, OF CABBAGES & QUEENS

Law circles are yakking mightily about that far-reaching recent U.S. Supreme Court ESCOBEDO decision which ruled that a person is entitled to an attorney IMMEDIATELY. Dissenting Justice White said the new ruling is unworkable "unless police cars are equipped with public defendants," and police everywhere are screaming. But Justice Goldberg said that if law enforcement must depend on confessions and "If the exercise of constitutional rights wil! thwart the effectiveness of a system of law enforcement, then there is something very wrong with that system." MORAL: IF YOU CAN'T KEEP YOUR FLY SHUT EXCEPT IN PRIVATE, AT LEAST KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT EXCEPT TO PHONE YOUR ATTORNEY . . . In Martinique, 3 Portuguese sailors, ages 17, 26 and 34, are due to be tried for beating to death U.S. composer, Marc Blitzstein, 58 . . . A NY psychiatrist studying ten men hospitalized after becoming fathers found fatherhood often brings on severe psychic shock from sexual conflicts, such as latent homosexuality. A Frisco columnist is screaming that homosexuals are overrunning gorgeous Buena Vista Park . . . A Florida newspaper says that famous Johns Committee pamphlet which was supposed to be "against" homosexuality and which their State Attorney immediately stopped the State from distributing is now being sold privately by homosexuals themselves double the marked price . . The Village Voice for 7-9-64 had a humdinger of an interview by one of its gal reporters with a Greenwich Village male hustler

All police forces in England were ordered to get the consent

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