Hawaii Melting Pot of the Pacific

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the midst of the fury of the world conflict, the events in the Pacific are taking on even greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and its peoples, whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War.

Here is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Pacific story presented by the National Broadcasting Company and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific basin.

This broadcast series comes to you as another public service. The drama of the past and the present of the millions of people who live around the world's greatest sea were the east at last meets the west.

Hawaii, melting pot of the Pacific. The 166 years since Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, men of all creeds and colors and races have migrated to this melting part of the Pacific.

In 1778, there were 300,000 Hawaiians in the islands. Today, there are less than 15,000 pure Hawaiians. Today, the islands have a complex race situation with a polyglot population of 425,000, the biggest percentage of which are Japanese.

Missionaries, whaling ships, industry, commerce, wrought this change. In 1820, the English and French advisors to the Hawaiian King, Le Holy Ho, were concerned about the arrival of a ship with a company of missionaries. But you can see, King Le Holy Ho, that these people have come from America, not to help your people, but to try to change them.

That's quite right, Johannes. All they have done is asked for permission to leave here in the islands and carry on their work. Ah, their work, yes. But they are medwells. They brought their credentials as missionaries.