structed the detectives' view, but they figured they had seen enough to arrest the two men for a misdemeanor, if not for a more serious morals rap.

"At the fifth-floor office of the morals division at police headquarters, Jenkins identified himself .. and gave his address, birth date and birth place correctly, but listed his occupation as 'clerk. Under questioning by Lieut. Louis A. Fochett, he ad-

mitted that he was indeed the Presiden's aide. Fochett immediately telephoned Inspector Scott E. Moyer, chief of the morals division, for guidance. Moyer gave a two-word order: 'Book him.'”

TIME goes on, goes on, and on, and on. And this is the magazine which goes into 5,000 classrooms across the U.S.A. so that more than 100,000 young people can get a better perspective of history in the making! PRESS HYSTERIA

The pfess in general was not far behind TIME in falling on their victim like a pack of wild hyenas. There was something almost Freudian in their hysterical denunciation of the man who had strayed strayed from the 'straight and narrow'. The fact that he was a highly respected married. man with a wife and six children only seemed to increase their indignation and fear of this moral leper: This deviate! The social astracism and exile of a fallen leader behind the Iron Curtain is almost civilized when compared with our treatment of a homosexual, unmasked.

But all was not darkness and hate. Here and there one could see a glimmer of light. Writing in his column for the New York Post of October 19th Editor James Wechsler wrote

in part:

"Perhaps Franklin D. Roosevelt rendered both the most wise and pragmatic judgment when one of his valued high officials was denounced

by bureaucratic rivals as a homosexual. 'Well, he may be,' Roosevelt is said. to have replied, 'but he doesn't do it on the Government's time.'

"But in his later years the man was eventually apprehended in a lamentable public fiasco (again without any indication that he had betrayed any public trust) and FDR was obliged to dismiss him. The verdict was politically inescapable. But the country would have been deprived of many years of distinguished service if this offender had been initially disqualified.

"What I am suggesting is that some of the ablest men of our time may not be the 'safest' by conventional standards, that democracy must sometimes take calculated risks with those too easily branded security risks and that, according to all the evidence supplied by Dr. Kinsey and other distinguished scientists let no man judge others hastily lest he be judged."

The reaction of the American press, as a whole, to the incident at Washington is far more important and significant than the incident itself. But, of course, most Editors and writers are totally unaware of the significance... or are they? Every society and culture feels the need to protect itself against the 'outsider', the rebel, the deviate-but few institutions act with the zeal and puritanical determination of the American press. Perhaps it is just their way of telling the world that ours is a 'Government of heterosexuals, by heterosexuals and for heterosexuals.'

Yes, indeed, This Was The Week That Was!

NEWSBIT...

Mayor Wagner of N.Y., politician that he is, isn't taking changes lying down and is deploring "obscenity" for the benefit of the State Catholic War Veteransdo Catholic Veterans have some problems other veterans don't have, or why are they organized?

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