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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. This is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest scene. The drama of the people's whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War.

This is the background of the struggle in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. Tonight's specific story comes to you from Hollywood and New York as another public service with drama The Past and Present and a message from George Woodhead, former editor of the Peking Tin-Cin Times and authority on far Eastern affairs.

Singapore! The last time I saw Clyde was there in Singapore when the Japanese were marching him and his Scottish regiment away to a prison camp.

As highlanders walked along blowing their pipes as if they were on parade, not a trace of emotion on their faces. Clyde walked along carrying a cane in place of a sword. You'll be quiet. Singapore had fallen.

I couldn't believe it. It had been my world for three years. We knew everyone we went everywhere, and suddenly it was gone. And Clyde was gone. And I was a prisoner. In the three and a half years since then, That part of my life hardly seemed real.

Now it is beginning to seem real again. One of these days now, I'm going back there. Until eight years ago, I had no idea that I should ever be interested in Singapore. How are you?

Let's not dance, this one, Madeline. Let's go out and get some air, hm? We walked out on the veranda. Why don't you come with me to Singapore? I've got a job. We've made off with dull newspaper reporting.