The Old China

is the story of the Pacific and its people, of a peaceful sea in the lands and lives of touches, of their meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company as a public service and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific Basin.

This broadcast series comes to you as another feature of the NBC Inter-American University of the air, with drama of the past and present and commentary by Owen Latimore, a part of the honor of the Pacific and director of the School of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, School of China.

Standing against the enemy in the Far East is China. For 50 years, China has been a victim of Japanese aggression. For six years, China has successfully fought Japan. With the avalanche of events in the Pacific since Pearl Harbor, China has become more important to us than ever before. To win the war in the Pacific, we must have the friendship and

the help of China. But China is not only great because she has successfully fought Japan for six years, nor because of her 450 million people. China is great because of her history and her culture. Six hundred years ago, a traveler returned from China with tales of such All the benefits you will enter your return, Marco.

You honor us beyond what we deserve. Where we are your friends and relatives, and whom better could we feast than you? But for our diligence in proving that we are not imposted, you'd better ego and all Venice would have turned us away.

For six years, twenty-six years you were gone. How could we know you? Even my own relatives here, Gian, refused to administer our own house. Oh, but your clothes were coarse and tortured, and the Marco Polo I last saw, which are not more than a boy.