Our Strategic Needs In The Pacific

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

This is the story of the situation in the Pacific. Of the men and events, we start today influencing the shape of world affairs for generations to come. strategic needs in the Pacific rolling up on the shores of dozens of islands brought with the blood of Americans 1,026 Americans

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Besides the plots on these islands where the Americans lie in measured rows, are the facilities which they gave their lives to establish. Runways, power stations, fuel and ammunition dumps, docks and warehouses. Today the wind size softly through the crosses, And the runways, the power stations, and all the machinery of war are quiet.

We must never again be obliged to capture bases after war has started. Right. We must have a defense belt of bases from Hawaii clear across the Pacific to the Adiatic mainland. We must have a chain of fortified island bases, an island highway that will maintain our power in the Pacific.

And in the years to come, this will become a pathway to peace. In the light of the bitter experience and the high cost of taking bases in the Pacific during wartime, strong positions have been taken by those charged with its responsibility.

We must have permanent possession of our new naval and air bases in the Pacific. These bases cannot be left in the hands of enemies. Many of these bases will be necessary for policing the world against future aggression.