Japan s Dream of World Dominion

The Pacific story of the Pacific and its people. Of the peaceful seas and the lands and lives of touches, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. The National Broadcasting Company presents the first in a new series of programs dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific basin.

This new broadcast series, another feature of the Inter-American University of the Air, will deal with a different aspect of the Pacific each week with drama of the past and present and commentary by Owen Latimore, a quality on the Pacific and recently political advisor to Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek. This is the Pacific story.

Japan's dream of world dominion. The vast Pacific, the last meets the west. The destinies of the millions of people who live in the land to touch us are faithfully intertwined. The West Pacific no longer separates the oxidants from the audience that rather joins them.

Here around the Pacific Basin a new world is emerging, a new era of cultural and commercial and industrial development. What happens in the Pacific today will affect not only the millions of Chinese and Malaysians and Polynesians, but the millions of Americans as well.

Land forms a lot rather than a complete circle around the Pacific. At the South, the Pacific opens into the Antarctic sea. South America is on the Pacific from Cape Horn to Panama, and Mexico is on the Pacific and the United States and Canada.

At the top of the map, Alaska lunges off to the west and almost touches Siberia. From here, the rim curves away to the south. The low Siberia lies Japan, and behind Japan, our nation's mainland is China.