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W-E-A-F, NBC in New York. The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. 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 is the background story of the events in the pacific

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present the difficult not in the tangled skin of affairs in the pacific The French, the Chinese and the native animites all have an active interest in this side door to the Pacific. And that means conflict.

We have no territorial ambition in French in Dauchina. But in our war with Japan, it was sharply demonstrated that we must exercise some control over the Yunnan-Pourean Road to Hanoi and the Porphyry of Haifeng.

Moreover, for centuries, France has governed French into China. We point with pride to the culture institutions we have post there. Also, we have investments and interests in Indochina which must be maintained. We, a megaphone, are grateful to the French and we admire the Chinese.

But we would like independence to live and govern ourselves in our own way. We British naturally favor the French point of view. The French have done a splendid job of administration in French Indochina. But the French close, the Yunnan-Pourer, wrote to China at the most critical time.