The Heartland of Asia UN Series

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. seen of struggle, conflict for gain and power, people against people, Western nations seeking to dominate and exploit the lands and people, and millions caught in the political and economic cross-currents.

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.

The heartland of Asia of the general staff. I am now discussing the heart of the world. This is the Institute of Geopolitics in Berlin.

Here Dr. Karl Hausaufer formulated his theory of geopolitics. Very close attention. For the future of the Great Reich depends upon your clear understanding of this theory. This is 1939. This theory I describe upon the map is the history of the world.

I describe upon the map is the world island. He encircles the great land mass of Europe, Asia, India. There are no separate continents of Europe, Asia, and India. This is the world island. He points to a smaller circle on the map, China, Asia, Russia, and India.

This is the heartland of the island. In this greatest land mass on the globe, live 450 million Chinese, nearly 400 million Indians, and more than 100 million people of Soviet Asia. These are the greatest potential market in the world for German goods, the greatest labor supply in the world for German industry.