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The Pacific Story · August 13, 1944 · 29 min · 4,352 words
The transcript of “Sinkiang China s Wild West C”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast August 13, 1944. 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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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the mounting fury of world conflicts, 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 people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here as another public service is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come.
Sing-kyung, China's Wild West, from the roof of Central Asia, where Russia and China and India meet, in the center of the greatest land mass on Earth.
At the Point Father's Center from NEC, their lives, fabulous Sing-kyung, or Chinese-percussance, crossroads of conflict for 2,000 years, and today a teaming center of activity in a war-torn world. The cross-stabilist lands won the ancient silk road, where for thousands of years caravans flooded between the Far East and Europe.
We are taking the silks of Kathy to Rome. We shall bring back hers and priceless treasures. Land over this same road through St. John, past Marco Polo, and Camelain, and Genghis Khan, fierce hordes among those, the Turks and the Huns, swept out of these plains and mountains and deserts, and sacked the cities of Europe and the rich centers of the audience.
How for years, Xinjiang has been a crossroads of conflict. For Xinjiang is a rich land, a land of unbelievable wealth in resources. And Xinjiang is a land of many people, a melting part of the little-known peoples of Central Asia, where the influences of Russia and Britain and China meet.
At the turn of the century, rumors feel the air of Xinjiang. Yersh and her flatting to march through Xinjiang to inflate India. It's a British or sending agents into Cinqiang with the idea of developing a road through it to Uruka.
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