Nanking Symbol Of Victory

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. The Pacific 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. Mankin, symbol of victory. Could hardly believe it.

At last we were coming back to Nankin. Parts of how we had left on foot, battered and beaten, and of all that had happened in the eight years since, surged up on the end, blended with the roar of the engine.

We will be landing in a few minutes now, Cauunty. Yes, look at this city below. Nan King lay like a great intricate pattern below it. On the right bank of the Yangtze, 200 miles up the river from Shanghai.

Look at all the highways and roads running into the city and the Great Walling closing. Yes, we were coming back, not on foot this time fleeing in the night, but flying back to accept the surrender of those who had chased us out.

Eight years ago, was Nan King. Beautiful. They had a man came, man came which was six hundred years old at the time of Christ. This was the scene of some of China's greatest struggles, Chinese against Chinese and Chinese against the foreign aggressors.

This was the last resting place of Sun Yat Sen. We went to his white marble mausoleum on the slopes of Purple Mountain. I stood there in the quiet. Nothing had changed around the mausoleum except that the trees had grown to some height.