one by one to the Bar of the last Tribunal and all will pay the penalty for their crimes against their fellowmen; for one and all of them failed when they should have stood shoulder to shoulder and helped out matters at home. Remorse on this side is the hell awaiting them, and the place where they suffer that remorse is incredibly more terrifying and lonely than any punishment on earth. But it is no worse than they deserve—traitors as they were to their country and brother-men.

Do we hate the Germans? No! They too were drawn into the war; many were just boys, too young to know what it was all about, yet they had to leave happy homes, schools even, to fight like men.

You know what act of dying does not start your wings sprouting or make you become an angel all at once. We Tommies (yes, I am English, all right, and was a bank clerk), we learnt lots of things when we came over to the spirit side of life, things that had happened at home in our absence over at the front; and we know who to blame for things the perpetrators never thought would come to light; hence our bitterness after all these years.

For the sake of the world’s peace, stick your war lords in the front trenches for the first six months, together with the profiteers and munition-factory owners, and you’ll soon get arbitration instead of wholesale murder. Let them at least “do their bit” for a portion of the war period. Many of us now have sons of a fighting age; hence this communication. For what will we feel like when we look on helplessly and see our boys facing and going through what we had to go through. I have two sons of my own—it will not bear thinking about!

If one could cure the ills of a country by sacrificing life, the end would perhaps justify the means; but it does not, as witness the present economic conditions of all countries engaged in the late war. The evils of war ruin the morale of those engaged in it. Nor does it end with the declaration of an armistice or peace. Added some days later:

WHEN I told some of my friends here on the spirit side of life that I had got a communication through to you, they all wanted to write something too (you see we are still somewhat earthlike in our inclinations); but that being inadvisable we are