U. S.A. has no use for me and my ideas. My book has sold very very
badly over there.
You don't mention your health, and I take it you are back to normal
again. Good.
Don't let us continue arguing about politics and policies. Let us write
about important things. Why won't you tell me the sequel to the moving
motor and Bill W[ashington]? Why did the experiment stop there? You
were so optimistic then about using Orgone for power. What was the
snag?
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
•••July 17, 1952I know it was I who suggested we cease corresponding. I gave
you my reasons, reasons you thought wrong ones, and they possibly
were, for from this side one can't get a true picture of anything. But in
the past silent months I have often felt very sad, asking myself questions
... Is this the miserable end of our warm friendship? Should two men
who matter so much to children be separated by the political plague?
Am I cut off for ever from news of the Orgonon work? Worst question
of all ... Am I now in the class of Hal Wells, Saxe, Barakan?* But
such a thought comes only in more pessimistic moments.
My only source of information now comes from U.S. News and World
Report which you so generously send me, but it is a poor substitute for
the word and the world of Reich, so far from that new world we dream
about for our Peters and Zoes, the world of love in its widest sense.
Life and work go on as usual. And in early September I hope to
have another lecture tour of Scandinavia. Since Raknes will be at your
Conference I may not see him this time.
Zoe will soon be six. We seldom see her all day, for she is so busy
with her own gang. I wish you could see her now, and that we could
see Peter. Unfortunately we have no boys her age who were self
regulated. Ena has lost weight, is slim and like a young girl, but is very
well and full of energy. She works all day long.
* Onetime admirers, all of whom had, in Reich's view, become "pestilent."