Monsoon Asia Adventurer and International Rivalry

is the story 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. The Pacific Stories, presented by the National Broadcaster Company as a public service and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific Basin.

This broadcast series comes for you as another feature of the NBC Inter-American University of the air, with the drama of the sewing of the seas that ripened into the war in the Pacific. Monsoon Asia, adventurers and international rivalries, a thousand years and more men have been fighting for the riches of Monsoon Asia, of Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Malaya, the East

Indies, the Philippines. From the North came wave after wave of Mongoloids, from the West came Indians and Arabs. From the region that is now Yunnan province in South China came the Malays. Race fought against race, clan against clan. Into this struggle for mastery came the white man and with him came rivalry for empire. White man against

white men until the Japanese moved in and seized all of Montsune's for themselves. First of the Europeans were the Portuguese. Next came the Dutch. You have to act quickly to Hootman. Mmm, yeah. We've only been here in the Maluckas for five years, and already we have to defend our trade.

What does this new British trading company call itself, undersea? It is called the British East India Company. British East India Company. Hmm. They must be heir to the spice trade of the Maluckas more than that.

When we made our first voyage out here to the Indies in 1595, only the Portuguese were here, but the British had been watching this trade from many years. They took no interest in it, no active interest, until they came out here.