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The Pacific Story · August 4, 1946 · 29 min · 4,362 words
The transcript of “Skyway to the Far East UN Series”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast August 4, 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 at the affiliated stations to further world unity and world peace through understanding.
For hundreds of years the Pacific and the land it touches have been the scene of struggle, conflict, for gain and power, people against people, and the 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. Peace built on justice and understanding among nations to the far east Milace will be in Minneapolis in an hour wonderful. What do you listen me to write your lifetime to the trip adding this next hour?
160 less than a week What about our mileage when we hit Minneapolis will have traveled? 1,000 miles 30 1,000 miles a thousand miles. It doesn't seem possible that we're so many miles from other peoples.
Actually I have the feeling of being very close to them. Well you know the old song. It's a small world. Today it really is. Small and interlinked my friend. What we think say and do affects the peoples of the Far East.
What they think say and do affects us. Thus Wendell Wilkie, advocate of one world, voiced his convictions following around the the world flight in 1942. And men who might debate his political views could not deny the geographical realities he made clear. Our world has no far corners left. Modern ways of travel have blasted old notions of time and space. In the Far East are vast millions of
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