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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
CHICAGO 37+ILLINOIS

4 eae” a THE LAW SCHOOL 5 April, 1957
Dr. Lawrence Kolb |

6645 send Streetm NW.

Washington 15, DB. C.

Dear Mr. Kolb:

Thank you for sending me the reprint of your article in "Police!
and for your kind comments. I have also just received my copy of
the recent hearings before kefauver and I was especially delighted
by your testimony.

Dr. Chapman disa. pointed me to a degree by his over-emphatic
assertion that English experience means nothing to us or something
like that. Surely he knows that if English accicts could not get
their stuff from doctors they would be criminals too like ours: and
surely he must know that many of our addicts would be law abiding
under similar circumstances. Also, I should think thet Dr. Chapman
would know from United Nations reports that most of the nations
of Eurepe have similar programs so | why act as if the British program
were unique?

In your article you mention an official who approved a new law
because it would enable addicts to be"trapped like animals" ---—-I
wonder if sometime you would tell me if this is a published statement
or one made to you personally, and who it was? I just gleaned one
from Anslinger before the Boggs Committee where he said about the
treffic being a good way to make money: "We have had some rather
substantial young fellows who think, 'We will get into this; this
is the way to make a killing ;! and, of course, if you know the ropes,
it is." (p.133)

I am somewhat embarrassed by the fact that the statement of mine
on the British system which I had introduced into the record, is
scheduled for publication in "Law and Contemporary Problems" and that
it should come out first this way. It was scheduled gor the "winter
issue" and I thought it would be out long before now.

What elates me especially about the fefauver thing is that I
think with you, Chapman and me agreeing substantially on England,
and with all three of us having been there, that maybe this at Least
is pinned down. You were much too charitable to Anslinger when
you said there were people who were denying "in good faith" what
the British do. I believe that Kefauver eventually caught on to
this and probably knows the score.

Sincerely, | .
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Lindesmith