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The Chinese Giant Awakens

The Pacific Story · April 14, 1946 · 30 min · 3,815 words

The transcript of “The Chinese Giant Awakens”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast April 14, 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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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama the millions of people who live around its greatest sea, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of securing the sea.

This is the background story of the events in the Pacific, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. Tonight's Pacific story comes to you with drama of the past and present and commentary by Justice William Orgo Douglas, member of the Supreme Court.

The Chinese Giant Awakens. Theatre is from the city are coming to talk to us. One and all.

A very important meeting will be held tomorrow at the Temple Theatre of our village. Everybody must be there. Scholars from the city are coming. When in law it is said they are scholars. Scholars would not come to our poor village.

I do not understand it wrong. Why would they come to this huddle of mud husk? It is said that yesterday they came and talked with the elder and the elder called the village console. What can they want?

The elder is going to speak up in. I have called you the people of the village together for a very important purpose. It concerns the prestige of this village. These scholars you see here on the platform with me have come to our miserable village to educate us, to make scholars a vessel.

Oh, God. If you could ask one, not one getting up to talk now, is not a scholar. No, it is child. He lives right here in the finish. How many of you here have eyes? Raise your hand. Raise your hand, Wong. Yes. Everybody is raising his hand. Even your son, you'll stay over there. Yes. Can you see me? Yes. I can see.

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