Shanghai

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 keeping the peace.

This, as another public service of the National Broadcasting Company, is the background story of the events in the Pacific, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. What do you want to bet?

I'll give you a while, just in another couple of years. Shanghai will be back to normal. Out of the fact, things will be better. What's changed? Oh, some of the buildings were smeared. They've all been patched up.

The Langpool River is still where I was before. Suqiao Creek is in the same place. The Bund is still out on the waterfront. The race course is still in the middle of the city. The mansions in the Circle Sporti Francais are still out in French now.

And the Shanghai club here is still got the longest bar in the world. So what's the eye? Just as I was telling them up on the Shanghai Club, it won't be any time at all or until Shanghai is running just like it was before the war.

The war has changed many things, Mr. Whitfield. Never changed Shanghai. What did you bet? You still bet on everything. That's my life. Yes, that was Mr. Whitfield's life. Gambling. I had known him ever since 1925.

And he had been in Shanghai some time then. He never worked. He just gambled. And he was everywhere. Bedding on the horses at the race course. Bedding on the tennis matches. Bedding on the polo games. Talking with politicians and dignitaries.