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The Case of Russia vs Japan C

The Pacific Story · May 14, 1944 · 30 min · 4,063 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of the world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea.

The drama of the 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 comes to you tonight from Hollywood and San Francisco is another public service with drama of the past and present and commentary by Dr. Harold H. Fisher, Professor of History at Stanford University and authority on Russia.

The case of Russia versus Japan. We'll plant the Japanese flag on the Urals. This is your Suki Matsuoka.

I will plant the Japanese flag on the Urals. The Ural Mountains are 3,000 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. In this statement, the former Foreign Minister of Japan is contained the gist of the Japanese attitude taught Russia in the Far East.

Million Russians face the Japanese in the Far East. A million Japanese face the Russians. The frontiers bristle with bayonets and rifles and big guns. Tanks and guns rumbled behind the deeply entrenched fortifications. I've heard the Russians have 3,000 airplanes and over 2,000 armored vehicles out there.

out there. They say Russia's built 4,000 block houses along the Soviet Manchurian border. Well they ain't fighting are they? Why ain't they? It says here in this paper that it looks like the Russians and the Japs got a secret deal to divide Asia between them. The Japs get one part and the Reds the other and the Americans will

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