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They Shall Inherit the Earth

Words at War · January 4, 1944 · 29 min · 3,718 words

The transcript of “They Shall Inherit the Earth”, an episode of Words at War first broadcast January 4, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Words at War plays Words at War free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Shh, they're coming! Where? Around the bend! They got the beautiful lady with them? Nah, she's tied up somewhere! We gotta save her, Jim! You're right, Ed! We gotta save her! Shh, quiet! I can hear them coming! They're coming!

Birds at war! The night the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the Consulon books in war time attempts to tell a part of the story of what we in our war have done to the children of the world.

Tonight's drama is based on the important new book by Otto Zof and titled They Shall Inherit the Earth. The part of the author will be played by Richard Stark. Hey Dirty Dan, you're dead. Now Texas Jim, we just killed Dirty Dan, always cattle rufflers.

We done a good job. Yeah, buffalo eggs. We done a good bang, bang, bang, bang. What are you doing? Dirty Dan wasn't dead yet. He was still flopping. Hey, you're standing on my horse's head.

Hey Jim, get off Mom's groove. excuse me where's mine right here come on Texas we gonna ride yeah ladies still tied up on a railroad track we gotta save her come on okay are those words at war no no they're not they're just the words of some little boys playing a game in a small town in the eastern part of the United States of America it's

the summer of 1937. At the same time in Madrid, Spain, but perhaps I'd better tell you who I am. My name is Otto Zof. And for years, I've been gathering material for a book that would answer the question, what are we doing to the children of the world? And so I walked through

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