shown interest. This raises the nasty question: Would the orthodox
scientists allow humanity to die of atom ray poisoning rather than admit
that another view of science was the right one? You say rightly: Don't
try to convert the mechanistic professors. True, yet these profs stand as
the bodyguard of society, and you, Reich, can't get your drama across
the footlights because of these men. How to get behind the little men of
power to the people?
I can't understand why the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] did
not demand the presence of one of its men to see that you weren't going
to explode a bomb.
These doubts and fears always come when I hear from you of a new
discovery. This one sounds so overwhelmingly important and true, that
I want the world to grasp it and USE it sofort [immediately]. I must feel
that more than you do, for your great moment is the discovery and not
its reception. In ordinary times you would wait for the more or less slow
reaction; in these anxious days, to sit and wait is too alarming. Hence
my impatience.
Congratulations on a brave adventure. Gott, if only you could have
had the whole tale filmed! And congratulations to your helpers who
seem to have been a splendid team.
P.S. Ena is getting wonderful results using the new-made 5 ply Shooter
for children's cuts and scalds. Healing in half the time usually taken,
she says.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich:- ••
November 9, 195 IA short and hasty and urgent note to ask a question. One of
our mothers, a dentist's wife in her early forties, has got thyroid badly;
Graves' Disease I fancy by her prominent eyes. Is Thyroid a disease that
has benefited from the Box? Or rather, is it SAFE to use it without a
genuine Organon expert within visiting range? It seems to me that it is
her only chance, for I don't know of any successful orthodox medical
treatment of the disease.
I find myself that I have to lessen the period of sitting in my five-