Martin and Miller, having served their usefulness to their Soviet masters, and-knowing the game was up-were faced with two alternatives: (a) They could face the charges of espionage and treason (and face the death penalty) or, (b) seek asylum in Russia. Obviously, they took this into consideration and, we see, did what probably seemed like the logical thing. Looking at the case in a detached sort of way, we may possibly wonder how, having committed one 'sin' against society by being born homosexual-they could be blackmailed in to committing graver errors. It is relatively simple. They are told, by their Soviet masters that 'not much' is required of them to purge themselves of the "evidence" used to blackmail them. Each time Martin and Miller provide information for their Soviet masters, (though this information may be of great value) they are told that it is "...not enough." Remember this too; every time Martin and Miller fumished information for the MVD, they unwittingly provided further material with which they could be blackmailed! I doubt, very much, whether Martin and Miller are very happy with their lot. I doubt too, whether many people in the United States-in fact, in most Western countries-realize how they contribute, through lack of understanding; through intolerance, to the fate of people like Martin and Miller. The Soviet 'fishermen' do their angling in foreign countries, protected by diplo matic immunity and, unfortunately, many fish fall into their net.

Perhaps you may be wondering why I selected Martin and Miller of N.S.A. as the classic example? No reason there are others. You will remember Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean of Britain. Their circumstances were very much the same. However, what of the diplomat or government official who takes on a mistress? Isn't he subject to this kind of black mail? He is-if the USSR's agents find out first-and if we do not admit to ourselves that it is human to err. One forgets that, when a Government blackmails in this case the USSR-that "evidence" is very easy to get, or to manufacture. If individuals are deprived, by right of false moral obligations, of the respect of their fellow men and women; if so-called Christian people can crucify their own kind; then there can be little or no defense against Soviet penetra tion into our Government agencies; there can be no Democracy.

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The State of Affairs in Indonesia

by HEINZ P. (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Indonesia being an Asian country and largely heathen, means that homosexuality, including bisexuality, is not quite so unthinkable there as in the United States.

In Hindu-Javanese mythology, frequently visualized in stage and puppet plays, Ardjuna is comparable to Apollo-very beautiful and indestructible; he is both sensualist and mystic. His love affairs, his periods of rock like meditation, and his magical powers are displayed and admired in roughly equal measure. Ardjuna is beloved, in the stories, both among women and men and although he has all the manly attributes on stage, he cannot be portrayed but by a girl.

The "resk" is a semi-ritual re-enactment of a legend about a giant wishing to marry a princess and the resulting warfare. It is a weird dance done only by people from Ponorogo (Central Java) in which the main personage wears a 30 Kg. tiger mask with a halo of peacock feathers. It is held in place only by his teeth and the man must be quite strong to keep at it for hours, dancing, lying down and standing up again, sometimes even carrying a child on top of the tiger's head. In fact, he cannot do it without a state of trance, induced by meditation and abstinence. Now this abstinence applies to women, amongst other things, but not to erotism. For his sexual gratification there are the warriors (zemblaks) played by boys whose quite unmilitary manners are accepted and understood by everybody. "}