The Beggars of the Sea

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations present the Pacific story. In the midst of the fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on even greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and its people, 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. But beggars of the sea! Star Devata, first! The beggars of the sea!

That is what the Spaniards called us Dutch when we fought for our freedom from staying more than 300 years ago. We made it our slogan, beggars of the sea, on guard! We have never forgotten it!

We had only one hopeful saying, then, the tide will turn! We have the same thing now as we sit here in the Indies waiting waiting for deliverance from the Japanese The Japanese warmed over our island our men and out to fight them Some of our men will never come back Some are too fighting in other places in the Pacific we are here in the Indies

Wait Tight will turn Yes, it will turn as it has turned so many times since my people came out here from Holland more than 300 years ago. My people have seen the ebb and flow of this tide through all these years.

For hundreds of years there was rivalry here in the English and my people. I remember my grandfather telling me a fact here when Napoleon took all of Holland in 1806. Napoleon, send a governor, to represent him, and the English were afraid that the French planned to take the English, so the English send a fleet of 100 ships, from...