Record of a Friendship

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matters in the book I am writing now on Children of the Future, * as a
master example of what politics and political discussions can do harm­
fully to life-important work? Let me know how you feel about it.
Keep writing, Neill, and try, if you can, to see that the old distinc­
tions between a capitalist class and a working class, etc., have in the
old economic sense completely disappeared, and that entirely new social
conflicts have appeared on the horizon. We shall have ample occasion
to discuss these things next year when you are here; but solely from the
standpoint of the newborn infant and not any more whether Truman or
Stalin, or whether Marshall or some Russian general are right or wrong.


Orgonon
Rangeley, Maine

My dear Neill:


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September 22, 1950

Dr. Bakert called last night telling me among other things that
according to a personal message he received from a Senator, the U.S.
State Department has, after thorough investigation, consented that your
visum be granted. You will soon hear from the London Consul.
Thus it is quite clear that no visum has ever been refused but only
delayed. May I suggest that to comply with the truth you send out
another letter to all people who received your first message on the visum
telling them that the visum was not refused but only delayed.


Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk


My dear Reich,


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September 23, 1950

Good. Fine. I agree with you. We'll cut all political argument.
But I must say that we have proved that politics are corrupting, for
they made us quarrel over what really wasn't bedeutend [important] to
either of us; they side-tracked us in a dead end. I suppose the real

* This manuscript was never completed.
t Elsworth F. Baker, psychiatrist and student of Reich's.
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