"It is strongly urged by the Project Committee that more personnel be sent to Mars, however, as a serious shortage of manpower has developed due to the feverish pace of the Settlement's growth. Colonization may be the answer. "Nowhere have the UN patrols discovered any indications of previous occupation by alien forces. Nothing resembling the invasion fleet discovered by Jan Carvel has been located. However, the cairn mentioned in the Diary has been found, further supporting the authenticity of that document...." _Addendum in manuscript._ "Higashi suggests that the message found in the Cairn confirms the original findings of the UN Psychometric Evaluation Board concerning Jan Carvel's sanity." * * * * * _From the message found written in pencil on a shipping tag in the Martian Cairn built by Jan Carvel._ "Welcome, my brothers!" * * * * * _From the Founding Directive of the New UN Planetary Colonization and Development Committee._ "It being established that Mars and Europa are free of alien occupation, colonization of the areas immediately surrounding the UN Military and Scientific Bases on these planets immediately begun...." * * * * * _From the statement of Delegate L. Louis Frank, Assembly Minority Leader to the World Press._ "... simply because we have not yet been attacked. I stand foursquare on my record as a public servant. If I am returned to the Assembly as delegate from the Southwest Area, I will continue to support the expanding military program. We cannot rest until _all_ the habitable planets and satellites in the solar system are bases for our mighty cruisers. Only then can we be safe from this Terror!" * * * * * _From memorandum written by K. Higashi to the Psychometric Evaluation Board's Subcommittee in Canalopolis, Mars._ "... since I have been on Titan. Both here and on Io and Europa, we have found Cairns. Each time they contained the same message: 'Welcome, my brothers!' Has it occurred to any member of the Board that these messages were all written _after_ Carvel's supposed flight in panic from the place where he spotted the invasion fleet?" * * * * * _From a memorandum to K. Higashi, Base Psychologist, Titan Colony, from the Secretary of the Psychometric Evaluation Board Subcommittee in Canalopolis, Mars._ "It has. The pictures were faked too, were they not?" * * * * * _From memorandum to Secretary, Psychometric Evaluation Board Subcommittee, Canalopolis Mars from K. Higashi, Senior Staff Psychologist First UN Triton Expedition._