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Summerhill School
Leiston, SuffolkMy dear Reich,[ 1955 ]
May 25, 1955I am not sure which article you mean;* if the one read for me
at the 1950 conference please cut out anything that might be dangerous
to my school ... z.B. [i.e.] if I mentioned Beischla! [intercourse]. I can't
find the copy I kept and fear that I might not agree with what I said
five years ago.
Had a visit from a man I met some years ago, a curious card, teacher
of motor driving. He has a Reich library but never lends out the books;
his interested friends come to his house to read. He is a genuinely keen
guy, and his library readers are all young folks who want to get as much
as they can of your work.
I have been thinking of U.S.A. a lot recently. What puzzles me is that
so large a nation does not seem able to produce leaders. Ike, for ex
ample, appears to some of us over here as weak, and like Dulles, open
to influences, like the China Lobby which would risk a world war.
Voting is tomorrow and looks as if the Tories are going in again. Most
voters seem not to care about who rules them. The Saturday football
match takes infinitely more emotion from the millions than does the
thought of a DaR world. Our election now is a dirty business; men like
Eden and Attlee saying things that children would say about each other.
I know of no politician in the world I'd trust to give me advice on any
damned thing. I share your contempt for the lot.
Anarchist paper Freedom has new editor who seems to be anti-Reich
and anti-Neill. The New Statesman & Nation won't have either of us
nowadays. Makes me begin to share your long view on liberals in
general.
I'll strengthen my Box.P.S. For weeks now I am in U.S.A. in my dreams almost nightly. I
awaken feeling sad about their stupid visa rule, but an American profes
sor tells me things are slackening now that McCarthy is a negative
number. But I doubt if the time will ever come when I can get a visa.
- I •
* Reich had asked about publishing the paper Neill gave in absentia at the
Orgonon Conference of 19 50.