"It took long years with constant changes to bring it up to our present standard of life. We now celebrate 'Emancipation Day' every year to commemorate that event. It's our most important holiday.
"Our two planets are nearly identical and men-inhabited, both are greatly blessed by nature. We Martians by our combined efforts, unselfish, and perfect living methods have helped in creating it into a paradise. Whereas you Earthmen by your selfish, greedy, corruptive, filthy, and cruel ways and systems of life are defiling its God-given bounties.
"Life on your earth is a terrible ordeal, after a most devastating world war with all its ills, your nations are in dispute, holding up your world peace, over possessions, reparations, booty, loot, material gains, imperialistic aims, different ideologies, and aggressive wars. Within your nations there is a lack of social control, insecurity, instability, at all times the unknown, unpredictable, chaotic conditions, serious strikes, disputes and greed, constant mounting cost of living, inflations, increasing taxations, all of which halt reconversion, tend to bring on increasing armaments, aggressions, wars, fear depressions, famine, and miseries among the population of your Earth, endangering the existence of your nations.
"Your five big nations have made an effort through their United Nations assembly to remedy some of these situations. But the plan is too new. The policy has not been definitely determined. To date there has been a great deal of talk but little action. Selfishness in your human nature here again deeply asserts itself, fifty-five of your nations laid down conditions against aggressions, but when it came to fight it, only a few joined to help, and only with small military tokens.
"I believe for their own safety, that your powerful, and influential leaders and people of your nation should get together without delay, and initiate a movement to help your government to start a broad, liberal and humane living system experiment similar to our way of life, in one of its least inhabited state, territory, or island, and broadcast the fact to all the peoples of your world.
"That test with the promise that should it prove successful it will gradually adopt it for your whole nation. This should create a salutary effect on the peoples of your earth to counteract and turn them against the cruel and corrupt principles in existence, and advocated by some of your dictatorship government nations."
New Delhi, India, Dec. 26, 1950 (AP)—Prime Minister Nehru said today the struggle between communism and democracy will be decided, not on the field of battle. Nehru declared that in the final analysis the people might discard both communism and democracy for some "intermediary or other methods."
He added that the ultimate test lies, not in accumulation of a private fortune, but in raising the standards of the people.[45]
"I leave it to your own good judgment to contrast our happy existence with yours, where your moneyism causes and creates violent emotions and convulsions in your political, social, economic, and religious life.
"It has impregnated in you an animal desire for selfish ownership, greed and power, bringing on mass destruction and killing between you. Since time immemorial you have without restraint constantly intensified, and developed them."