people to sexual indulgence with one another, their planning and
organization of it, and their assumption that when they consent together
they are not doing anything wrong.

Clergymen and publicists in various parts of the world have been
declaiming about illicit sexual practices and their effects on young
people, but this is the first time that any Government has set up a
Committee to sift the available data on sexual misbehaviour with a view
to finding the cause and suggesting a remedy.

While this report was being typed there appeared in the local
newspapers the following telegram despatched from London on September
14:

INQUIRY INTO VICE WAVE IN BRITAIN

A Government committee, including three women, is to open
tomorrow a searching probe into Britain's homosexuals and
prostitutes, to decide whether the country's vice laws should be
changed.

The Government's decision to set up the committee followed
public alarm at the vice wave in Britain, highlighted by a steep
increase in homosexual offences.

The Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, has charged the
committee with considering the law and practice relating to
homosexual offences and the treatment of persons convicted of
such offences, and offences against the criminal law in
connection with prostitution and solicitation for immoral