Mr Nixon, President US Congress

The White House Washington, D.C. USA

Washington, D.C., USA

The board of the International Humanist & Ethical Union feels highly alarmed by continuation of bombardments in Vietnam and postponement of peace agreement and call upon President and Congress of US to cease war without perspective and its useless destruction of life and land in order to free western world from further suspicion of more power politics.

The IHEU wishes to see this tragic conflict terminated as speedily as possible. We condemn the killing of defenceless citizens and deliberate or accidental destruction of civic and industrial plants in the North, of which the bombing is the latest example. By such action millions of innocent lives are taken or endangered.

We call for an immediate end to all foreign involvement in Vietnam, and for a negotiated political settlement of the conflict.

In accordance with the motto of this Fifth Congress of the IHEU, "To seek a humane world", and because the IHEU believes that it speaks for men and women throughout the world in condemning the intervention by the major military powers in the affairs of smaller nations in violation of international law and Charter of the United Nations,

The International Humanist & Ethical Union meeting at Cambridge, USA calls upon the U.S. Government to cease its appalling destruction of life and liberty in Southeast Asia and to withdraw its forces without delay.

The Board of the International Humanist & Ethical Union being vividly aware of the prolonged and appalling sufferings of the people of Vietnam,

Alarmed for the prospects of world peace if the outcome is to be the victory of overwhelming military might,

And without wishing to discuss the various elements which have led to the present situation asks all the interested parties to make the necessary effort for a return to peace,