The Buryat Mongols A Soviet Minority

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations present the Pacific Story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of securing the peace.

This is the background story of the events in the Pacific and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Tonight's Pacific Story comes to you with drama the past and present and commentary by Dr. Robert Gordon Spellow, president of the University of California, and scholar of Russian affairs, a Soviet minority. He's interested in how the other fellow got out of it.

Today many of the peoples of the Pacific are in trouble, and that's why they're interested in what happened to the Buriat Mungo. Mungo live in Siberia around Lake Bay Call about 1400 miles inland from the Pacific. For centuries they had a rough time with it. Today they have their own government and their prosper. That's what's important to the other peoples of the Pacific.

Why should the French who will ask? This is a native of French and or China. We have been under Dutch rule 350 years. We want to be free. This is a native of the Netherlands Indies. We have been liberated, but what kind of government will we have in Korea?

This is a Korean. And there are the people of Thailand, who for 600 years were free, and then during the war were puppets of the Japanese. These and the many other peoples of Asia are all groping for the way out of their troubles.

And they wonder about the Buryot Mungal. They are only about 750,000 Buryot Mongols, but they fought for their freedom. And they won it. The Buryots were oppressed for centuries. The terrorist Russians have robbed us and outraged us.