Record of a Friendship

[ 1951 ]

Orgonon

Rangeley , Maine

My dear Neill:

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September 26, 195 1

It was a great nice surprise to me to hear that I was wonderful
and that "you cannot love Willi and later be disloyal to him." But the
worst haters came from the ranks of my early students who loved me
dearly and that was not my fault.
The fact that you did not obtain any reaction in Oslo at the University
lecture only confirms the fact that we are through and accepted every­
where, and are no longer to the same extent the "red cloth" I used to
be. My oid enemies are wise enough to keep silent at present.
I still believe that you will attend the 1952 conference if you only
try hard enough. But it becomes clearer now that the refusal of your
visum is due rather to a mechanical application of the McCarran Act*
than to any special consideration of your person. As long as these
ghastly spies and sneakers will crawl around among decent people,
snooping and sniping and slandering and stealing secrets, there will be
many decent people who will suffer from it, and I am waiting for the
day when one of them will speak up against the hideous rats of Sowjet
[Soviet] design, and not against the American public who is in full
agreement with the measures taken to keep out thieves and murderers.
Why don't you speak up against the sneakers and snipers? We here
at Orgonon feel that such diversion of attention can only protect the
emotional plague.
Let me know what impression you had of Philipson. I still feel that
with some good effort he could be made going again and become a
member of our organisation.

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* The McCarran-Walter Act, which, among other provISIons, barred from

admission to the United States anyone who advocated doctrines or was affiliated

with organizations held to be subversive.