felt outcast, and like all outcasts we had to protest. So we protested by dressing in a way other people found offensive, by behaving in ways they didn't like. We had to get our own back. Now,' he shrugged, 'they accept us, or have begun to. We don't have to protest any more. We can behave like anyone else."

"I asked how it was that Holland, with its stern Calvinist history, had been able to permit such new and generous attitudes.

"'You know we are very tolerant here, especially of minorities. I think it was the war. We saw all our Jews taken away-we had many in Armsterdam-for no reason but that they were a little bit different from the majority. The Nazi-mind, you know, likes everybody to be like everybody else.

"'After the war, we felt-there is room for every shade of religion, of race, of feeling, so long as it harms no one else."

"But does it really take a war, or the agony of a pogrom, for men to learn this simple truth about living in society? In Britain, with our long tradition of liberty, are we really incapable of following Holland's wise and gentle example?

"I cannot believe it, nor that the derisory answer given last week by the House of Commons is a true

expression of our beliefs."

"IF MEN HAD BABIES..."

In a subsequent issue of the DAILY MAIL, Eric Sewall reports further and in some detail on the continuing House of Lords debates. Among others quoted as favoring the Wolfenden recommendations is Baroness Gaitskell, who is reported to have said:"If men had babies they would be less squeamish about their own bodies, and perhaps less insistent about their disgust about homosexual behavior. There are many things which are not aesthetic about the natural functions of the body, both in sickness and in health. One man's disgust is another man's pleasure. One might think that all the sex habits between men and women were confined to a kind of platonic friendship-with a plastic model of Brigitte Bardot all wrapped up and hermetically sealed-and not with the temptations of the flesh." But the implacable Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 78, after recommending (not altogather facetiously) that the age of consent for homosexual behavior be raised to 80, described homosexuality as "the most abominable bestiality that any human can take part in," and suggested that the appropriate title for the proposed homosexual law reform bill would be "The Charter for Buggery."

MEANWHILE, ON THE HOME FRONT

HOMOSEXUALITY CRIMINAL, SAYS AMERICAN SCIENTIST

The JOURNAL HERALD, of Dayton, Ohio, has come out with its own sample of reportage on this apparently ever-intriguing subject, with some emphasis on the reportedly-rising population of homo-

sexuals. In a 4-part serialized article beginning with the 5-31-65 issue, Jessie Donahue "exposes" the "third sex" in Dayton. On the whole, the article is simply a patchwork of opinions drawn from various sources in the medical, psychiatric, and law-enforcement pro-