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Mao Tse Tung Scratchy

The Pacific Story · February 10, 1946 · 30 min · 3,791 words

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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 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 and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. Mao Tsethong, Chinese Communist leader, Want it. Companionship of young men interested in patriotic work.

Right box 4x9. Let me see that paper book. Yes. See, there it is. Right there, we classified advertising. Yes. Wanted companionship of young men interested in patriotic work. Right box 4x9. What could be the purpose behind an advertisement like that?

There's one way we can find out. We wrote to Box 4X9, Chin and I, and then we wasted. We were students in the Hunan Normal School in Changshah. I wonder if it could be a student here in school.

At last the answer came. It was a student in the Normal School. We were invited to his room. Others would answer the advertisement were also there. They were discussing Adam Smith's book, The Wealth of Nations, when we came in.

Come in and sit down. We will start in just a minute. This was the first time I'd ever seen Mazzi Doney. He was tall and broad-shouldered on loose jointed. I noticed his full face and his high forehead and his shock of bushy hair and his intelligent eyes.

He smiled easily and made us feel at home. Who is this fellow, Mazzi Doney? He's a student here. I've never seen him before. He's just come here. He's the son of a poor peasant. Why did he advertise in the paper like that?

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