doctor's drug... "I can live as I like so long as I swallow the pills
the doctor ordered."
I am not continuing with the Oranur project. * I wrote to an old
acquaintance I met in Vienna in 1923. He is now professor of physics
in Bristol Univ'y and is called the most brilliant physicist in Britain. He
replied that he was not in the atomic movement and had nothing to do
with civil defence, but ended with the words: "I wouldn't attach too
much importance to orgone energy if I were you." You see how hopeless
it is to approach anyone.
I long to hear what happened in the lab and how Peter got ill through
rays. I do hope he has recovered entirely.
Ena and Zoe are well. Zoe grows daily and is so delightful.
My Dreadful SchooIt has been banned by a library in Sidney,
Australia, and one or two Australian papers have given the incident
publicity ... which I hope will sell the book.
If I can't get a visa this summer and have no hope of seeing you
again, I'll be very much depressed.Orgonon
Rangeley, MaineDear Neill:- • •
March 29, 1951I hope very much that your M.P. will be successful. The State
Department here, to my knowledge, has not objected to your coming.
I am hard at work to find somebody well trained and reliable, a
physician, to go to England for 2 to 3 years to introduce medical
orgonomy. As yet nobody wants to go, since they are doing very well
over here.
Re Oranur: We stopped the whole experiment a few weeks ago, and
are recuperating from very severe blows we suffered in this experimen
tation in regard to personal health as well as to shaking scientific insights.
- Neill had been asked to distribute the descriptive pamphlet, Orgone Energy
Emergency Bulletin, and had planned to give it to civil-defense people.
t That Dreadful School (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937). Tells of th e ex
periences and aims that have guided Neill in running Summerhill, so often felt to
be a "dreadful" school by those who disapprove of freedom and self-government
for children.