28 JANUARY 1955, Page 15

SIR,—I am relieved to see that your campaign for the

toleration of homosexual practices appears to have elicited no support from your readers. The sad thing is that the healthy reaction displayed in your correspondence columns this week should have been so long delayed. If less 'broad-mindedness' had been shown towards such degenerates as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tchaikowsky, Whit- man, Verlaine, and the so-called Generals Gordon and Kitchener, and they had been shut away as they deserved instead of being allowed to pursue their horrible careers un- checked, the world might be in a better state today.—Yours faithfully,

BIOLOGICAL HETEROSEXUAL