Chatterly.' Perhaps both of these may come in time: certainly we are now able to read about sex relationships of men and women without feeling futive about it." (John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate.)

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the four-letter words by Mellors in the presence of Constance Chatterly-words intended to root out and purify feelings long hid den by shame one of the most important works of fiction of the century. 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' justifies itself, if not nẹc essarily as a healing book for all readers, at least as our time's most significant romance." (Harry T. Moore, New York Times, Book Review.)

FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS

THE CIRCLE (DER KREIS)

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Published monthly since 1932, in French, German and English (no translation duplications); contains photos, illustrations and art reproduc tions, Rolf, editor. Annual subscriptions $11 first class sealed, Bank draft or cash to Lesezirkel Der Kreis, Postfach 547, Fraumunster, Zurich 22, Switzerland.

ICSE NEWSLETTER

Mimeographed English edition, published bi-monthly by International Committee for Sexual Equality, Jack Argo, editor. Annual subscriptions, $10. Address Postbox 1564, Amsterdam. Holland. (Single copies 50 cents each may be ordered from Mattachine Review.)

VRIENDSCHAP

Monthly magazine in Dutch with articles about male and female homophile problems, published by Cultuur en Ontspannings Centrum (C.O.C.), Bob Angelo, editor. Subscriptions $4 per year. Address Postbox 542, Amsterdam, Holland.

ARCADIE

Monthly lite ary and scientific review in French, A. Baudry editor. Subscriptions $9 per year. Address 162 Rue Jeanne d'Arc, Paris 13, France.

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TESTIMONY ON HOMOSEXUALITY ONY ON FORBIDDEN BY STATE AGENCY

In California recently, a woman psychologist was not allowed to testify that there's nothing lewd about homosexuality before a hearing of California's Alcoholic Beverage Control Department.

The hearing concerned the revocation of the license of a San Franciscó bar, the 585 Club. Named with it were four additional San Francisco bars alleged to be the hangouts of homosexuals: The Fez, Nob Hill, Spur Club and the Hideaway. Ready to testify was Dr. Phyllis C. Kronhausen. The charges in the specific case were that certain acts between males in the bar constituted lewd behavior, and that any public display of affection between men constituted lewdness.

Attomey Richard J. Wertheimer, in calling Dr. Kronhausen to the stand, stated that "she will show that homosexual behavior is not unique in the population. She will prove the alleged anti-social, sexually. perverted acts in this bar are not a perversion or a danger to society."

Sidney Feinberg, attorney for the state, commented: "It's not what the medical profession considers a sex perversion, but what the general public, even in their ignorance, Dr. Kronhausen, consider lewd acts."

Hearing officer E. A. McDonald of the ABC said, "I don't think we need to clutter up the records". Dr. Kronhausen stepped down from the stand, smiling. Later she said that those interested in her views can read a forthcoming book.in preparation by her and her husband, Dr. Eberhard Kronhausen, "The Well-Integrated Homosexual".

IS FAGGOT THE OLDEST WORD IN THE LANGUAGE?

Ask anyone good at tracing the origins of words to name a word that goes back to the language spoken at the time in England before the AngloSaxons came. The ancient Britons, not all of whom spoke Latin, weren't all wiped out. Were no words of theirs, asks Noel I. Garde of New York, picked up by the Saxon conquerors? There is usually no answer, he says, but maybe there is "faggot". Often traced absurdly to the bundles of wood used for burning homosexuals, it is much more likely derived from an ancient word amongst Roman soldiers (picked up from low-class Greeks) based on the Greek stem phag from phagein, to eat or devour, or be a glutton. This stem or root was used in various compounds, and was used in Latin phagon, glutton. In sexology, we find it as a suffix in 21