[ 1950 ]
Summerhill School
Leiston, SuffolkMy dear Reich,(^294)
[undated]
This is all I can do in the time given, * for I must post it
today. It is only a skeleton and without my presence the flesh can't be
added to the bare bones.
The Embassy remains silent. Maybe your last letter was right about
the various elements in U.S.A. government offices. This is a fear among
many here that the MacArthur policy on Formosa may bring the world
war very soon. The insoluble question seems to be: How to combat
communism without having to ally oneself with corrupt governments as
in China and Korea, governments that the native populations won't
accept. That seems to me the greatest weakness in the fight against
Stalinism, and one exploited by the other side cleverly.
Orgonon
Rangeley, Maine
My dear Neil!:
- I •
August 19, 1950There is still hope that you will be able to read your paper
personally. It is scheduled for Friday, August 25; however, there are
a few points which I would like to have corrected and on file:
I. It is utterly incomprehensible to me how it is possible that you
still believe that it is "the working class which took over half the world."
Why can't you see, Neill, (it is high time), that it's a bunch of political
crooks who took over the working class of half the world? What in
heaven's name has Stalinism to do with the working class?
- You know me well enough to permit me to say and be understood
plainly when I say that as the situation in the world is today, with
the given emotional plague all around us, any king, any conservative,
any Christian Catholic is much preferable and less dangerous to man
kind than these abominable and despicable lot of gangsters who have
ruined not only a great system of thought but have surpassed in cruelty,
* Neill had enclosed the manuscript of the paper he was to have given at the
conference in Orgonon.