I do feel most strongly and most sadly that your life has had far too
much of enemy attack, but Gott sei Dank you got your message ... nay
messages through in spite of them alL So today, even if they put you in
prison you and what you have given the world will triumph in the end.
But perhaps there isn't much fun in being recognised five hundred years
after your death.
Whatever the future, myoid and dear friend, I and many others will
never lose faith in your work and yourself.
Ena joins me in sending her sympathy and congratulations on refus
ing to be bullied.
- I •
[While on a lecture tour in Norway, Neill was told by a mutual
friend that Reich considered him unreliable. * He responded to
the charge directly.]Oslo, Norway
October I, 1956
My dear Reich,
So our long friendship has come to an end because you con
sider me unreliable and on the side of Ritter and Co. How very sad.
Just at a time when you require every friend you can have too. I think
you have had few friends; disciples yes, enemies yes, but few who stood
as it were outside and were objective. Maybe Sigurd Hoel and I were of
the few who were not yesmen. I was a friend who loved you, who recog
nised your genius and also the Little Man in you, but I never was a
"Reichian" who accepted all you said and did. Thus I was genuinely
concerned about Peter and his fears of overhead planest and his grown
up-ness which is not real, for he wants to be childish and play a lot all
the time. I could speak to you of him where one of your disciples could
- Neill and several of Reich's Norwegian friends sent him a joint telegram of
affection and suppon. Reich cabled his thanks to one of the friends, with an
emphatic warning that "Neill is unreliable, tapewormed because of Boadella and
Ritter."
t American planes routinely flew over Summerhill from the U.S. Air Force
base nearby. During the summer, Peter had spent some time at the school and,
while there, had said that the planes were sent to protect him against Reich's
enemies. Neill tried to laugh him out of the notion-which Peter then reported
to his father.