THUNDER OVER ASIA

for a better understanding of the world around you for a greater knowledge of the world you live in wolf and s hour in downtown fort wayne in downtown huntington brings the screen news digest a chapter of living history into your classroom the dreams of the Dragon are born 30 years ago in the caves of a mountain hideaway in the remote Chinese province of Jana a handful of people are gathered here living a life of primitive hardship their leader is mao zedong a man with a plan a blueprint for the conquest of China those who follow Mao are carefully taught the enemy advances we retreat the enemy camps we Harris the enemy tires we attack the enemy retreats we pursued this is mounted on strategy of guerrilla warfare the tactics of terror studied and learned in Yunnan Province political power says Mao grows out of the barrel of a gun communism is not love communism is the hammer to destroy our enemies in 1937 Japan launches an all-out war against China and for eight long years the land and the people are cruelly punished as China fights for a very life the Nationalist government of Chiang kai-shek must end does accept the support of the Communists so the red gorillas come down out of the caves of yay none but the dreams of the dragon are made very clear by matzot own comrades he says we are fighting ninety percent for ourselves and ten percent against the Japanese the ragged communist army poorly trained badly equipped is drilled and armed by nationalist China and the United States as the war goes on mount it on is hailed as a popular anti-japanese patriot and the red guerrillas are cheered as liberators as they helped turn the tide of battle against the invaders when the Japanese surrender in 1945 Mao's gorillas have grown both in strength and size the enemy from without has been conquered the enemy from within has just begun to fight well post-war China is a land exhausted by battle misery and hunger are everywhere people eat grass because grass is all that they have to eat this is the time for mountain and his guerrilla army to speak and to strike and strike they do out of the barrels of guns in a self-proclaimed war of national liberation Civil War spreads throughout the country in an attempt to bring a lasting peace to the troubled land the United States sends general george c marshall to china to meet with both sides the general proposes a truce when the establishment of a coalition government with nationalist hand communist representation both sides agreed to the marshal proposal and in his signed representing the Communists in making his first appearance as a Red Chinese leader is Joe and I at General in mouths Red Army the Communists have no intention of honoring the agreement the joint life signs the truce is part of Mao's philosophy to fight fight talk talk talk talk fight fight the Communist Party says mouth must never deviate from conquest for submergence organization in a united front the red wave rolls on sweeping over and across the Chinese mainland and on November first 1949 the dreams of the dragon of bin fulfill all of mainland China has been overrun and one-fourth the world's population has been brought under absolute communist control Martin and his followers have come a long long way from the caves of yunnan province the Rev leaders blueprint for conquest protracted guerrilla war United Front elimination of all opposition has accomplished its aims now consolidating his power over China and her people Mao takes an increasingly militant position against the United States and the free world and in Korea in 1950 Communist China and the United States come into direct conflict the confrontation is triggered by the invasion of south korea by communist troops from the north the United Nations responds to the aggression and American troops are sent into combat to help defend the sovereignty of South Korea the GIS and their United Nations allies drive back the North Korean invaders in heavy fighting the Communists are put to rout the US troops move northward in November 1950 the Red Chinese intervene on the side of North Korea for two and one-half years the Communists and American troops are locked in battle on the snow swept slopes on Korea in July 1953 the fighting ends with a truce that fixes boundary lines much as they were when the fighting began the United States suffers more than 150,000 casualties but the freedom of South Korea is preserved as the Communist Chinese troops withdraw to the north and return to their homeland margit own claims a momentous victory over the forces of the free world the United States he says is a paper tiger a reactionary nation destined to be swallowed up one day by a communist revolution that will engulf the earth in Mao's own words the seizure of power by armed force the settlement of issues by war is the highest form of revolution the marxist-leninist principles of revolution hold good universally for China and for all other countries of the world so an increasingly aggressive communist China spreads its sphere of influence into countries on all continents in 1951 red troops march into the peaceful mountain kingdom of Tibet to set up a puppet government controlled by Peking in 1959 when the freedom-loving people of Tibet rise in revolt the Communists crush the uprising killing thousands in imprisoning thousands more many of the fiercely independent people of Tibet flee their homeland and find sanctuary in neighboring India here they can live and labor in peace dragon's shadow and the Dragons dreams are spreading across Asia to reach into the subcontinent to touch the faith and future of India Prime Minister narrow and his daughter mrs. Indira Gandhi are welcomed warmly by Joe and lie on a goodwill visit to Peking the Red Chinese are seeking by peaceful means a stronger link the closer bond between the world's two most populous nations for Mao Zedong's China is inhabited by 660 million people and pondered Narrows India is populated by 480 million together these two countries account for almost half the world's population and yet in 1963 Red China turns on her neighbor launching a series of border raids on India multi-tone is carrying out the communist manifesto that declares the goals and gains of world revolution justify any means anytime anywhere in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of the end of World War two mao zedong issues a new blueprint for world conquest because North America and Western Europe the cities of the world in Asia Africa and Latin America the rural areas communists from every continent are told the today's world revolution involves in mouths words the encirclement of the cities by the rural areas all communist countries should regard it as their sacred duty says now to support the revolutionary struggle of the National Liberation Front in Vietnam China he adds will do everything in its power to assist the Viet Cong until every single American is driven out of Vietnam in the final analysis the Communist leader points out the whole cause of world socialism hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian African and Latin American people's who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population with revolutions organized everywhere with protracted Wars of national liberation United fronts the elimination of all opposition there will be a torrential tide of opposition for the United States and her allies and the philosophy of Mao Zedong concludes the nations of the free world can be divided up and defeated this today is communist china's new and global manifesto militant and menacing the dreams of the Dragon spoken in picking Thunder out of Asia and echo around the world to widen your horizons to stimulate your interest in things going on about you wolf and I saw one of America's great department stores as presented the screen news digest as a public service you