Record of a Friendship

copy of a Washington paper with an article about Eva's application to
practise orgone therapy. If Eva said the half of what they say she said
I simply stand speechless. They quote her as saying that your road to
therapy is by orgasms. What the hell?
Reich I love you. I cannot bear to think of your being punished by
an insane prison sentence. You couldn't do it and you know it. I wish
to God that you'd simply let some good lawyer take up your case from
the legal angle. Why should anyone waste breath and time trying to
explain to a judge and jury what your work is? They can't possibly
understand and the reporters will make a travesty of it all in a Brady
way. I think you are all wrong in thinking that the trials are instigated
from Moscow.
The Tatsache [fact] is that you are being crucified fundamentally
because you are the first man in centuries who has preached pro-lifeness,
because you were the one and only man to assert the right of adolescence
to love completely. The majority in U.S.A., Britain, Russia, in the whole
world are anti-life, so that you do not need to look for specific enemies
like the FDA; they are only the shot that was fired at Sarajevo, not the
basic cause of the attack on you. In any court your defence should be
in big letters I AM FOR LIFE AND LOVE, not I am the victim of
Russia or red fascism or anything else. I confess to a feeling that you
have imagined motives when the big motive of hostility was there plain
to be seen. You haven't enough normal people around you to argue the
point with you. To think that the great man who has advocated rational­
ism all his life would now embrace irrationalism is a terrible thought.
Terrible because when you are up against the hard rationalism of law
courts you must be super-rational to win.
Sorry to lecture like this but I am concerned about you, very much
so. Get that lawyer and fight them with their own legal weapons, for
your weapons are invisible to them.
My love and concern and blessings.