Soho "Most Disreputable”

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30145, 31 May 1963, Page 11

Soho "Most Disreputable”

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LONDON. May 3U.

Foreign and Commonwealth visitors, an well as manv Britons, thought the most disreputable ptace in Europe was Soho, s lid Lord Morrison of Ijtniheth during a debate in the House of Lords

Svvrra -Dessert agreeo with him One of ‘hem eom p ainee nrongh <rta’ if called "he sie j z er ’«* o Soho intnr’' «nd rhe bod imr>re«s - on nlare* gave V visitors

The Lord ChaneeMor. Lord ©ilhone. In reply, said he

eouio considei wtte’Jlei wider powers and heavier penalties against vice club* -Souid be introduced

"I am nothing in the nature ot a puritan said Lord Morrison “I shouldn’t like England to be run on the stiictest puritanical lines; but 1 think this par of London ha-- gone over the limit " He said he wo ked tn Soho ■in Soho souare as chef Rrtist film "ensor-ano had ir affection for it. Bl’ here were such rhmer as <tr p-teaee e v hib’tions with -siaters outside of neer nakw v.,m-*n te rtm-t passem by

Then ’here are ‘ns’ tu’ionmown I’m told * clip joints there women have a custom .* standing nu’side attracting visitors inside for th» purpose •f tskmp light refreshment and being entertained in some

svfl Way 1 tit cXI StcTK'x j* such places opens up the possibility pf their use for improper purpose, and in any Case if foreigners or people from the Commonwealth come here and innocently drift into one of these places, the; may find themselves badly shocked " The Duke > Atholi said Xai several a, these clubs outside promise veu untold Pleasures and vic inside and when vou get :n al) you d< pas three guineas for two ‘range juices and a half hour's conversation with an unattractive arr* ill-educated ■'emale ”

The Lord Chancellor said n» thought anybody who paid money for ‘his sort of thing and was disappointed in consequence would have incurred his own fine.