etc. I say this partly in self defence; I don't want to have him on my
neck because he thinks that I am your sort of official deputy on this
side of the ocean.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
- I •
March 5, 1955Yours today. But you don't say if you have written to Ritter
yourself. I can do little with the guy because I simply must not quote
to him what you have written to me.
Thanks for the [flying] saucers book which came a few days ago. It
sure made me sit up. So much air force testimony can't be ignored.
I then got hold of the other book. * Leslie almost gets near your Or
gones, but I can't accept Adamski's account of his interview with a
spaceman. How could he possibly get all the conversation without
language? Why you write that the space problem is quite acute I don't
guess. Inclined to accept your opinion that they are benign, the only acute
problem I can imagine would be their arrival here to stop the inevitable
atomic destruction of all life. Mutual fear won't stop war. Almost looks
as if Freud was right in saying there is a death instinct when one sees
the whole mass of people thinking of football and radio etc. at a time
when the sinking of a U.S. aircraft carrier off Formosa or the enthusi
asm of a U.S. pilot might set the light to the gunpowder barrel. Hence
I say: let the spacemen come; they might save us and if they came as
destroyers they could not be more dangerous than man himself. What
do you mean when you say the problem is most acute?
I wish I could talk with you. I wrote to the Hamiltons after years
and got a long reply from Tajar. It was good to hear from him again.
So you have been on TV again. Good. I wish I could have seen it. I
am in so much of the dark about what you are doing and what results
you are getting.
Things all right at this end. My only trouble is Angst about my child
mostly. I simply can't see how East and West are to go on without war.
* Flying Saucers Have Landed, by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski
(New York: British Book Centre, 1953).