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The Pacific Story · November 21, 1943 · 30 min · 4,558 words
The transcript of “Australia Rising Power in the Pacific”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast November 21, 1943. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Pacific Story plays The Pacific Story free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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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, and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific Basin.
This broadcast tonight comes to you from San Francisco and Hollywood as another public service, with drama of the past and present and commentary by Owen Lassimore, a power the honor Pacific and director of the School of International Relations John Hopkins University. Australia rising power in the Pacific.
Most of the Pacific's aircraft are winging called Australia. My people work up the United Nations. Warplanes carrying men and materials to this new nation which is playing a major role in the war in the The vet took me harbor.
Yes, bonsa, isn't it? Look at that, to this spread out around the bay down there. It's here, the million in the course are now. I've never seen anything like it. River's going out in all directions like spokes from a hub.
Look there. Either Fettie boat. Yeah, that's how you get around the bay. Yes, Fetties and the big beach. Here down there, arcing across the harbor. Yeah, that connects the old city with an old shore and a mover.
And the old sea, the old sea, the old sea, the old sea, the old sea. That connects the old city with an offshore and with many of the residential suburbs. Nearly a fifth of the people in Australia live right down there along Sydney Harbour.
A lot of activity down there. Sydney is the greatest port in the world if you ask me. What's there down there? Railroad? There are the right. Yes. Railroad, Reynolds, Renat, from Sydney and all directions.
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