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The Pacific Story · December 3, 1944 · 30 min · 4,208 words
The transcript of “Manchuria s Puppet Government C”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast December 3, 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 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. Tonight's Pacific story comes to you as another public service with drama of the past and present, and a special message from Vice Admiral William A. Calhoun, Commander of the United States Navy's
Service Forces of the Pacific. Manchuria's puppet government. Your Majesty, eh? Your Majesty, is anything wrong? No. No more than usual, Chin. You were sitting here looking out of the windows if you saw nothing.
I was looking at that barbed wire fence around my palace out there. Electrified barbed wire. And they called me Emperor. Shall I play the phonograph for you? No. Some day things will be better, Your Majesty.
A man cannot live forever on dreams of future power. Why do you not go out and take a ride on your bicycle? Why not? He put on his coat and went down to his bicycle.
I watched his tall, stute figure. 38 years old, and he looked much older. Six feet tall and more and weighing only 102 pounds. Players phonograph and ride his bicycle and look out over the electrified barbed wire fence around his palace. That is all he does. I watched him get on his bicycle and move slowly away.
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