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The Pacific Story · December 10, 1944 · 29 min · 4,264 words
The transcript of “Japan s Secret Police C”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast December 10, 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 theory 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 specific story comes to you as another public service with drama the past and present and a special message from Colonel Frank Kurtz, famed pilot of the bomber the swoose and his
famed wife, Margot Kurtz. Japan's secret police. Under law shall be of one mind and social order shall thereby be perfectly maintained.
What is the Japanese way of saying that if you know what is good for you, you will think as we wish you to think. Any other thoughts are dangerous thoughts. Today after years of this thought control, the Japanese think as they are directed to think and therein lies one of their great powers.
The United States would not permit us to emigrate to the United States, tried to keep us from getting raw material. The United States has tried for years to ruin Japan economically. These are some of the directed Japanese thoughts.
And here are some more. Your United States tried to keep us from developing a free... The United States tried to block our expansion. The United States tried to destroy our trade in Asia. These are the thoughts that the government wishes the Japanese people to think.
All other thinking is suppressed. And the suppression of dangerous thoughts is the special job of the police. I am a defendant of the Samurai. That is what many a tough Japanese police officer would say.
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