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By February 1938 his visa had expired.

Several Norwegian scientists argued against an extension, Kreyberg saying, " If it is a question of handing Dr. Reich over to the Gestapo, then I will fight that, but if one could get rid of him in a decent manner, that would be the best.

" The writer Sigurd Hoel ( 1890 – 1960 ) asked: " When did it become a reason for deportation that one looked in a microscope when one was not a trained biologist?

" Reich received support from overseas, first from the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), who wrote to the press in Norway in March 1938 that Reich's " sociological works ... a distinct and valuable contribution toward science ," and from A. S. Neill ( 1883 – 1973 ), founder of Summerhill, a progressive school in England, who argued that " the campaign against Reich seems largely ignorant and uncivilized, more like fascism than democracy ..."