"We were like a pack of maddened wolves with the strength, daring, and fearlessness of lunatics. With diabolical fury, we darted and bounded wildly and fearlessly into No Man's Land in the face of the greatest danger.
"Timid ones became heroes without knowing it. The weakest ones killed with their bare hands. It was indescribable! All of us became filthy, cruel, inhuman beasts, with fierce irrational emotions and the sole urge to kill, kill, and kill our enemy. We fought to the death with no quarter asked or given. Most of us were mumbling our prayers or the names of our beloved. It is really a miracle that those of us who came out alive from this vertex of blood and slaughter are again normal and human.
"Closing his eyes, kneeling, passionately weeping, and vehemently imploring, he exclaims—In my mind's eye I see passing in front of me, the lost souls, images of dead soldiers, some of the countless billions of them who died on the battlefields of our earth.
"Their spirits are joining and inspiring me in this solemn entreaty for you to help us, so that their sacrifices shall not have been in vain. Standing up, he continued:
"What of the great many of us who survived, but who are maimed, crippled, invalidated, disfigured and shell shocked for life? The terrible pictures of our battle sufferings recur to us very often in our dreams. Through our torments, tortures, and ordeals, we have learned in the hardest way the contributive whys and causes of wars and inhumanity.
"Labor and capital struggles, strikes, unemployment, racial hatred, and misery are becoming burdensome and unbearable to the majority of us in this world. In our military life, in the army, in our company, and on the battlefields, we lived unselfishly as brothers and buddies. We loved each other, judged each other on our merits, and forgave each other our frailties and weaknesses.
"Now that we have re-entered civilian life, it is irksome to us to adjust ourselves and face an existence of selfishness, where the main object in life is personal interest, regardless of those others. Nature has endowed us with intelligence; on account of it we are humane, helpful, unselfish, and self-sacrificing for the welfare of our kind. Our ancestors have planted on us a money system, a most heartless, dangerous, tempting, criminally corrupting, degrading, and depraving medium without which we cannot obtain our necessities.
"In the last war we who endured agonies were used as tools for gaining victory in war for a part of humanity. Now, we are anxious to be used as implements for gaining universal salvation for all humanity. By our test and peaceful experiment which we ask you to allow, we hope to exemplify the new order which will achieve universal and lasting peace by destroying the real causes and incentives for crime and for all cruel wars with its wanton disregard of human life, and thereby save humanity.
"On our planet, in three successive progressive changes, with each consecutive variation, we increased and intensified our armed war conflict cruelties against each other.
"First, the stone age, then the iron age and now we have with us, appalling atomic, gas and bacterial warfare. Help us to once and for all make an end to them. 'Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis'—The times are changed, and we are changed with them. You as the head of a leading world nation by such an act, example, and pattern to humanity, you will the sooner bring about the brotherhood of all men, and world security. A showdown is getting nearer, help us to forestall it.