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The New China

The Pacific Story · August 8, 1943 · 29 min · 4,167 words

The transcript of “The New China”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast August 8, 1943. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Pacific Story plays The Pacific Story free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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of the Pacific and its people, of the peaceful sea and the lands and lives it touches, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. Of a Pacific story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company as a public service and dedicated to a full 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 Rathimore, a quality on the Pacific and director of the School of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University.

The new China, a quest at the turn of the century. For more than a hundred years, she had resisted the Western barbarian, who had common warships and merchant vessels to beat on her doors.

At the turn of the century, she tried to throw out the foreigners and failed. Van Sten and Leifen China with her 450 million people lay prostrate at the mercy of the Western powers. Old China lay helpless, but in the souls of a patriot a new China was rising.

The foreign nerds have established the old settlements on our soil. Foreign convotes patrol our waters, and foreign goods pour into our pot. Foreign nerds have these cold colds. and men, upper Burma, for Mosa, Korea, and now the Western powers have cut up China into spheres of inquiry.

The Generate Manchu dynasty is unable to protect China. Our Manchu rulers themselves are following this. The Manchu have governed China for 270 years, but now they must hit way. Now we must have a republican form of government.

We lead the way and we will follow. We will stand together, all of us. Our movement is growing strong. We have received the word of Dr. Sun Yekstan. The revolution will overthrow the Manchu Emperor and set up our own Republican government.

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