Record of a Friendship

(Ben Green) #1
1 agree with you fully that it is not possible to take responsibility for
adolescents' love life unless these adolescents grew up our way.
Your catarrh will only yield if you use the accumulator regularly and
faithfully daily over months and years.
1 received the English publication of my Character Analysis which
looks very good and 1 hear it is selling very well.
Keep in touch and write frequently.

Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk


My dear Reich,



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November 5, 1950

Firstly my warmest thanks to you both for your birthday tele­
gram. Your letter [unavailable] repeats our previous controversy when
you say: "I deeply regret that neither you nor the Hamiltons ... are
entirely aware of what red fascism means." But we said we wouldn't
argue about politics, and all 1 say here is that 1 think you attach the
words red fascism to people who are plagues if you like but not com­
munist sympathisers, e.g. Haire who is attacked by all the reds in
London as a reactionary.
What troubles me more than fascism of any colour is the fact that
some big curtain has fallen between you and me, a curtain that only
long talks could raise, and these are not even on the horizon (for my
ban will be permanent 1 fear), 1 look on the future relations with
anxiety. Not the personal ones but the ones connected with our ideas
and priorities and above all, work.


Orgonon
Rangeley , Maine


My dear Neill:



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1 have your letter of November 5th.

November I I, 1950

1 have the firm impression that the arguments between us of the past
2 or 3 months have done a lot of good to me and to you. To me in
learning that there is a way out of politicking, i.e., through sticking to

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