know that years later you will be recognised as the victim of vast
suppressive anti-life forces. And, Reich, since old friends like myself
cannot possibly follow you in your deep thinking and knowledge, it is
hardly likely that any judge or jury will do so.
I wish I could help you ... but independent men are difficult to help.
To think of your going to prison is a great tragedy, yet almost as great
a one is that you have had to fight the Philistines and waste all the
wonderful energy that should have been going into more and more
scientific discovery.
We are all well. I was going to lecture in Israel in October but had
to cancel the trip when the Nasser thing* began. I wish I could have
some optimism about the future of mankind. The H bomb in the hands
of haters is a terrible thought.
•••Washington, D.C.
February 3, 1957
My dear Neill:
I have your letter of January 29th. It is impossible for me at
the present moment to answer it in any way satisfactory to you or other
friends. I am engaged in a deadly and quite decisive battle with the
Enemy of Man. Anything may happen one way or the other.
This case is coming up before the Supreme Court. The legal material
is contained in some seven volumes of public record. These volumes may
be had against compensation from the Core Pilot Press, c/o William
Steig, 5 West 8th Street, New York, N.Y., with the exception at present
of two of these volumes. I do not know whether you are really interested
in going into all that material.
Be patient, please, if I keep silent or do not answer promptly. I am
extremely busy.
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* The nationalization of the Suez Canal, which precipitated a short-lived
Anglo-French invasion.