Silk The Golden Thread

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 they're meaning to us and to the generations to come. Silk, the Golden Thread. It is written that the East and the West

shall be tied together by a golden thread. It shall reach across the sea and across the mountains and the plains, and it shall encompass the world and be a token of peace. But war shall come and calamity shall come.

And they who fashion the golden thread shall suffer. Men will search the earth for a threaded sequel. But they shall find none until a game that is peace. And the people of the East and the people of the West live together, one with the other.

Today the silk looms are again spinning in Japan. The mills smashed by the war are being put back into operation. And the mills converted from silk manufacture for war industries are now being reconverted to silk.

But a great deal of water has gone over the dam since Japan's silk heyday of 1929. We're lucky to get in. This place is very exclusive, Pat. What if they rained the place while we're here?

Oh, not this place. Nick has got a fix. We will, but you'd never know from the outside that this is way down in the summer. They say Nick sank $50,000 in this fee. Oh, here comes our drinks.