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The Overseas Chinese last 2 5 minutes poor C

The Pacific Story · July 9, 1944 · 30 min · 4,488 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of 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 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.

The overseas Chinese. Time to see into Malaya in the month before Pearl Harbor, cunning Japanese work to drive a wett between the Malayans and the Chinese.

The greedy Chinese have a taken what belongs to you. They planted the poisonous thoughts of distrust. You are poor. The Chinese have come into your country under a take on each wealth. The Malayans for generations at what the Chinese make money, while they themselves remain poor.

There are two and one quarter million Chinese here in Morea. The Chinese outnumber you in your own country. And in Singapore, seventy-seven percent of the population is a Chinese. Look what the Chinese have done to you.

They own thirty-three percent of your chin-minds. They own forty percent of your rubber plantations. They own most of your rice meals. And for a long time they controlled 80% of your gold and silver and lead and zinc and coal mines.

And what do you, Malayant, have? What have they left for you? Japan is fighting with Chinese for deliberation of Asia. You, Malayant, need have no fear of us. Your enemy is within your gates. The Chinese.

What the Japanese brother Gandus did in Malaya, they did in the Netherlands Indies. Here are the million and a quarter Chinese in your country. And they control all its business and wealth. In Thailand, you have more than a million Chinese in your country.

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