Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,September 5, 1950We are just setting off for Amsterdam for a change. We'll
spend a couple of weeks on the sand near Haarlem, a poor Ersatz
[substitute] for Dodge Pond* indeed, but ...
The sad feature of the whole miserable history is that now when I
think of America, I don't think first of all of you and the people round
you, I think of the reactionary U.S.A., the narrow tough officials with
their lack of vision and their fear, those who think they can fight com
munism with bombs instead of by showing the world a better plan of
living. My exclusion from U.S.A. isn't exactly an advertisement for a
democracy that fights the lack of freedom in communism.
From now on I won't write to you about visas or communism or
fascism of any colour.
When we return from Holland I guess we'll just have to start a new
term without having had any mental refreshment. I have taken on a few
lectures to teachers this autumn and these will help me to get away
from the rather narrow life in the school, narrow because there is no
one to talk to on a higher level than gossip and cinema.
Orgonon
Rangeley , Maine
My dear Neill:
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September 7, 1950It is only today after the cessation of the great turmoil at
Orgonon that I find time and leisure to answer your letter of August
24th. We shall be staying here all winter and eight workers of the
Institute are settling down in Rangeley.
There is no doubt that you will obtain the visum. We have corrected
the note in the New York Times Magazine to the effect that your visum
has been refused. I had to send them the letter I had received from the
Consul General in London which said clearly that he would have been
glad to receive your application.
- The small lake in Maine which Orgonon overlooks.