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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 for 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.

Islam in the Pacific times a day Imam throughout Islam called the faithful to prayer and Muslims from Morocco to the Philippines from Manchuria to the Dutch Indies

kneel and touch their foreheads to the ground in the direction of Mecca and this is their creed This creed is expressed the fundamentals which have made the Muslims one of the most powerful groups on earth Today, there are 250 million Muslims in the world.

Three quarters of these live in lands washed by the Pacific Ocean. Their influence on world affairs is great. In the years to come, it may still be greater. Even today, many people of the Pacific are becoming Muslims.

Arabians began converting the people to the Pacific to monodenism more than a thousand years ago. You sent for me only one? Yes. You are a seafaring man? I have been a traveler and trader all my days.

I am told you have jonared far to the east. Yes, I have visited India and China and the islands beyond. Are these lands as wondrous as they are fabled? India and China are the greatest lands in all the world.

Rich in wealth and in ancient wisdom. With my own eyes I have seen the miracles of their medicine. And their scholars are skilled in astronomy and mathematics and chemistry. and they are cunning in the arts of music and painting and calligraphy.