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The Man Called X · February 12, 1952 · 24 min · 3,353 words
The transcript of “Italy”, an episode of The Man Called X first broadcast February 12, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Man Called X plays The Man Called X free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Listen to Herbert Marshall as the Man Called X. Wherever there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the Man Called X. Saster was the worst to hit Italy since World War II.
The raging waters of the river posed swollen by torrential rains overflowed their banks and brought death and destruction to thousands of Italian families. When the flood receded, it left in its wake hunger, disease, a desperate people.
And the minds of desperate people provide fertile ground in which to plant the deadly seeds of revolutionary propaganda. Listen to this, Ken. Americans go home. Fascist American pigs. Capitalistic, warm, mongering Americans. Read the recipe yourself if your stomach can stand it.
No thanks to you, I've heard enough. But how do you account for it? think that after all we've tried to do for those people money flood engineers food relief shipments that will you think would get something a little better than than this in return I didn't know we were asking the Italian people for anything
no of course we're not we don't want thanks we're only too glad to help but but compounded we don't want any kicks in the teeth either Keith that wave of un-American feeling is coming from the flooded areas the people that are hungry desperate surely are but that's no excuse we're sending them help and are
Are they getting it? Why, of course they're. Hmm. You mean the village of Chiori? Yeah. Our main relief distribution center. That's where most of the propaganda's coming from, isn't it? According to these reports from Bob Cunningham, our relief administrator, it is, yes.
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