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I'd suggest we teach each soldier something of the history and nature of the people whose land he'll be living on.

9 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - Peace Mediator classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:22:18 in the radio play.

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- He checked his notes, remembered his talks with Africans and the history of native tribes whose thirst for freedom was as keen as his own.

- Then he returned to the Office of Strategic Services.

- Gentlemen, I'm not a military man.

- That goes without saying.

- What do you consider strategically necessary for the success of the invasion?

- I consider that the most necessary thing for the American army to learn, before they invade North Africa, is something about the African people.

- I'd suggest we teach each soldier something of the history and nature of the people whose land he'll be living on.

- Teach them to overcome as much as possible their prejudices and realize that the culture of Africa and Asia is even older than our own.

- In this way I think we may be welcomed as liberators, gentlemen, and not fought as invaders.

- And the War Department had equipped their men who invaded North Africa with a history of' its people.

- And when the war was near its end, he remembered how he had been sent to the San Francisco conference to help form the United Nations and to write the 11th, 12th, and 13th chapters in the charter on trusteeship.

- And he had gone on and helped to write the United Nation's charter that declared all nations liable for the human rights of their citizens.

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Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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