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Guam New Outpost in the Pacific

The Pacific Story · November 24, 1946 · 29 min · 4,030 words

The transcript of “Guam New Outpost in the Pacific”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast November 24, 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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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 sea.

This is the documentary account of the situation in the Pacific of the men and events, which are today influencing world affairs for generations to come. New outpost in the Pacific. Sit in the shade of the cathedral overlooking the planet at Fania, La Tanya.

And talk about the scene that was closest to us. You think America will ever make our citizens fathers? The Americans have been here 40 years now. We do not even have a delegate in the American Congress as Hawaii does.

And as Alaska and Puerto Rico do, are we never to have any voice in our own government? He's got this hard to say, Pablo. It is hard to say. As Pablo and the priest saw, I looked out over the green of the plaza with his border of coconut palms.

I looked at the buildings around the square, the government house, the barracks, the courthouse, and doorkn hall, which used to be a public school. It had looked like this ever since I could remember. The Spaniards were here for 300 years, And they did nothing for our people, except into mixed with our blood,

as all the others have done in term mix. One of my grandfathers was a Chinese, one of my grandmothers in Mexican, and my great grandfather is Spaniard. I looked at Pablo and the priest. They, like me, were mixtures of the many peoples who had come to Guam and mixed with our chamorro blood.

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