The Phillipines and Their Fight for Freedom

This 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 Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company as a public servant, and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific Basin.

This broadcast series comes to you as another public service with drama of the past and present and commentary by Owen Latimore, authority on the Pacific, and Director of the School of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University.

The Philippines and their fight for freedom. They have today, they have today, nothing but sea. They have since you must have been.

Patience, three months have passed forward since we failed through the straight thing for our captain. We must believe in our captain, Majalla, and Dras Tingar. I knew when we sailed from Spain that we would never get back.

We will never find the spiced islands by sailing West Father. We have lost Captain Magellan as brought us through every day. Oh, we're lost, Father. The only land we've seen in the last three months were those rocky islands.

And we found neither proof nor water on them. There was nothing on life. Here comes Captain Magellan. Oh, yes, I must get back a loss. The men are still complaining, Father. Or the other anxious captain Magellan.

Every eye is straining for landfall. It is more than three months now. There is a western route to the Spice Islands, Farron. There must be. How food is running low? They seem up in somewhere.

Somewhere, far far. Where? If the Spice Islands can be reached from the east, they must be reached from the west. Look out along. For the law for a port to landfall, get ahead. Ten ahead.