Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
September IS, 1954Someone sent me the N.Y. Post [article].* What interested me
is the FDA "tests." Is there any proof of their attempts? Any written
details of what they tried? Any guarantee that they constructed their
Box in the right way? The answer of course to all these questions is no.
I was surprised that you gave the guy an interview at all, but I see it
was better so, for he might have written much damaging stuff in
revenge. He reads as if he were trying to be fair, an unusual thing in
journalism.
That article in the Post fails to see why Freud was accepted com
paratively soon while you weren't. Freud didn't go deep enough to touch
humanity on the raw. No, Reich, you'll be universally acknowledged
when all kids have soft stomachs... and by that time you and I will
be a long time dead. Sad thought though.
Your last letter was joyful for me to read.
What of Peter? When lIse asked about a job in S'hill I asked her if
it were good to be 3000 miles from her son. I told her that the saddest
cases of children of separated parents in S'hill are those who don't see
both father and mother in vacations. Do you agree? Eva may be a
Mutterersatz aber [mother substitute but] any Ersatz [substitute] isn't
good enough.
Letter after almost a year's silence from Mrs Haymes. She said she
had been in U.S.A. and had seen you ... and I was a bit jealous of her
luck there.
That article talks as if the Observatory is now livable in. I hope so.
Do send me any newspaper cuttings about any results with your rain
making. And can't you get McCarthy to investigate the FDA?
•••* "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich," September 5, 19 54. by Irwin Ross.