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

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

You can hear this line at 00:22:05 in the radio play.

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[...]

- You see, we haven't much time.

- He took the time.

- 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.

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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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