Storm Clouds Over The Philippines

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present The Pacific Story is the story of the Pacific. The drama of the millions of people who live around this great sea where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the people.

This is a documentary account of the situation in the Pacific. Of the men and events which are today influencing world affairs for generations to come, over as a Philippine. There are familiar sounds in Manila and in many other parts of the Philippines.

Working men cleaning up debris, falling away the shattered substance of which buildings are made. Retelling the wars on the waterfront. These structures are the only ones that come up. And in council chambers and barrios, in workshops and on plantations, in the shade of the moon day sun, in the glow of covering lights in Nipahat,

and under glistening chandeliers in the cities, There are words grown familiar with repetition. What can the government do with no money? The United States has authorized $620 million for reconstruction, but so far only a few million dollars have actually been appropriated.

Okay, if we are to where we live, we must have work, over so many of our factories ruined, and with the crops that planted, production is always more part of what it was before the war.

Our very sixth existence depends upon production. And when production is down, then we can do nothing but... We are the ones who are suffering from inflation. We who resisted the Japanese demise. Provisions are made for many who did not resist.

And we are without food, including insulin. We must export to live in what we have to export. If we are to revive our national income, we must increase our exports to the $155 million, which it was before the war.