'controversial' and not 'timely.' Schwarz admitted that they have to be
wary of the subject of sex. They've just had to edit an article of Neill's
'though a good deal of the sex remained.' Breit made the point that
the magazine section does not announce discoveries but deals with more
familiar and accepted things. When I told him about my mother, he
asked me what the orthodox doctors said. I told him they dropped the
subject after being surprised at the X-rays. Both seem friendly to you
and are enthusiastically fond of Neill. Breit quoted a statement of
Neill's that you are one of the world's really great men.
"Breit has sent Neill's Problem Family for review to, I think, John
Dewey."
Steig'S mother had a malignant cancer tumor in her chest and was
freed from it by orgone treatment by Simeon Tropp.
Things are moving fast here. The other day, the Orgone Press re
ceived an astonishing letter from the famous Mayo Clinic. They wrote
that the Mayo Clinic is establishing a Reich Clinic in their psychiatric
department.
Please keep me informed on the socialist state measures against your
school. I wonder when these little fellows will start thinking in terms
of the human soul. They are horrible. I have still the opportunity to
utter such an opinion freely, without being arrested for lese majeste.
What a holy crowd! thriving on the utter characterological helplessness
of the average citizen.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
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February 20, 1949Writing is so confusing. I can't remember if I wrote you before
or after my Cambridge lecture; can't remember what news I gave you,
for I never keep copies of letters I send. All I am certain of is that I got
yours the other day. The news of Steig's mother is staggering, as also
that of an organized body actually taking up your work officially. Fine.
The movement grows. At my Sex Society lecture last Monday in Lon
don the hall was packed full. It was a good meeting, marred only by a
few communists. One said: "What good have you done talking to us
tonight? You haven't told us what to do." I asked: "What do you want
me to do?" "Organise, organise in a political party like ours." I got a