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Our Job in Japan UN Series

The Pacific Story · July 21, 1946 · 30 min · 4,450 words

The transcript of “Our Job in Japan UN Series”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast July 21, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Pacific Story plays The Pacific Story free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Lasting Peace, built on justice and understanding among nations. This is the objective of the United Nations. This is another program in the United Nations series of the Pacific Story, one of the five special series presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations to further world unity and world peace through understanding.

For hundreds of years, the Pacific and the lands it touches have been the scene of struggle. Conflict for gain and power. People against people, Western nations seeking to dominate and exploit the people, and the millions caught in the political and economic cross-current.

Today, with most of the world's population concentrated around and in the Pacific, the events of the Pacific are of vital world concern. The Pacific story dedicates this series to the objective of the United Nations.

Lasting peace, the Utean justice and understanding among nations. Our job in Japan. His cellar break open the door. Break open the door.

This is mob violence, but the mob isn't bloodthirsty. It is hunger. It's objective is the store of rice, recorded in the rich man's cellar. This is the mob in Tokyo in the year 1946. It is only part of the problem post-humanity occupation must solve in Japan.

Our job does not begin or end with this mob. Policemen, though armed, sand quietly aside, watching the reading part. They make no attempt to halt anyway. Here's the starting transition. In a land where not so long ago, men were imprisoned and even executed, for harboring dangerous thoughts.

You look pay for me to make your door, please! Their sacks, kettle, the box, and loads with rice. A few members of the mob were dropping out. Others travel on to the next banana. One of those who drops out was a shabby uniform.

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