China s Secret Weapon C

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 peoples whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War.

This is the background of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations who come. Tonight's Pacific Story, China's secret weapon comes to you from San Francisco and Hollywood as another public service with drama of the past and present and commentary by Dr.

Wei Taume, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, the hills and valleys of free China where before the war there was only the sound of peasants killing the soil, today industry roars, where there was only simple handicraft, today thousands of spindles hum. Their only simple tools were fashioned, today giant porches turn the dynamic sinures of war. China has broken with a ancient past and has found a new strength

in the most powerful of all weapons. Industry. China's fixed policy is resistance and reconstruction. With these watch words, China for thousands of years an agricultural nation has turned to industry. The task was enormous. We are equipped to produce only 100 the amount of steel we need.

China was being attacked by highly industrialized Japan. Our spinning industries are almost entirely within the grasp of the Japanese. We do not have one spinning factory in the interior. Yes, and we have only a few thousand miles of railroads.

China needed one hundred thousand miles of railroads. And we have only sixty thousand miles of highways. China needed a million miles of highways. The operation of our coal mines and our iron mines is old-fashioned.