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Sarawak Adventure in Statehood very rough

The Pacific Story · March 10, 1946 · 29 min · 4,145 words

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Listen now to the Pacific story and detune the 660-30 minutes from now for the midnight news brought to you each evening at 12 WEAF NBC in New York The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story This is the story of the Pacific the drama of the millions of people who live around this British Sea

Where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace This is the background story of the evidence in the Pacific, and the meaning to us and to the generations to come.

Adventure in statehood. You hear my son. The drum is in the jungle.

He's got two hours since the wireless drop message and already driving from the takeaway to every corner of Sarawet. The great white father returns to his feet. The Japanese are gone from Ireland, and the white Raja comes soon again to Puchin.

This is a Sarawak mother, one of the deacts whose first men have inhabited this same kingdom on the west coast of Borneo. As far back as their ancestors could remember. But tonight we are alone, my son.

There is neither Japanese nor white Raja in the palace. And the voices of the night beetle and the bullfrog are heard only by deacts like ourselves and the male age and cayenne. Tonight the heart of our people beats as it did in the days before the first white rajah came to the shores of Saraweth.

That was over a hundred years ago. In the days of my illustrious grandmother, who stood as a girl on this same beach as her people watched this strange foreign boat draw near. This was the schooner royalist, up thing with all.

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