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The Pacific Story · October 20, 1946 · 30 min · 3,647 words
The transcript of “Canton The Symbol of New China”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast October 20, 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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From San Francisco, the National Broadcasting Company under sophisticated independent stations present the Pacific Storage. In the servants of United Nations Week, the Pacific Storage tonight comes to you from the city where the United Nations organization was born.
San Francisco, with this honor, became the symbol of New Hope. In keeping with this, tonight we present a story of another city far across the Pacific, which is a symbol of another kind, And which one day may be affected by the far-reaching decisions of the United Nations?
The symbol of new China. Hey, let me through, I must catch the train. I don't know if you can catch it or not. Here's my ticket.
Mm-hmm. Howler and Canton. Yes. Sorry, please. I hope you know you're ready for trouble up there in Canton. Yes. The Japanese have been passing the place with Barn. Yes. Well, near your ticket. Look, enter now.
Thank you. As the train pulled out of the station in Carl Loon and headed up the peninsula the last hundred miles to Camtarn. I looked back across the mile wide straight to the island of Hong Kong.
There was the barren, picturesque rock of the city of Victoria perched on it, the beautiful harbor below. It called back the last time I had seen it when I left for the United States to go to school.
And it called back the first time I had seen it. When I came down the Pearl River from Camtarn and I jumped with my grandfather. That is Hong Kong, Shidao. You see, the islands of Hong Kong are at the mouth of this river that brought us down from Canton.
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