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Suggested Introduction for Miss Lee Ya Ching to "Western Front" Television Broadcast.

You are about to see a film that all Chinese are extremely proud of.  We are proud of it because it shows how well China has fought for almost five years, and how well-prepared - and determined, too - China is to continue fighting until the cause of the United Nations has been won.

The film is called "Western Front," and you will see that the western front of all the democracies today is found in the waters around China, in the air above China, and on the good earth of China herself, which has already seen so much destruction and death. 

"Western Front" will show you some of this destruction---particularly the destruction that has come to Chungking, China's capital---a city that has been battered unmercifully time and time again, and which---each time---has risen like the legendary bird, the Phoenix, from the ashes.

It is good that you will see what Chungking has suffered, for you will wonder how anything so battered can still live, and it may give you the same pride that we Chinese feel to know that Chungking still carries on. Chunking, like China herself, is indestructible. 

You will see some of China's indestructible people, too. Thousands have died on the battlefield and in air-raids. Thousands have been bombed out of their homes, and are now refugees, thousands of miles from old friends or families, in China's far---but safe---west. 

But the Chinese have never for an instant given up, or even thought of it---as this film, "Western Front," will show you. The more China has suffered, the more determined and stronger she has become. This is true of all who fight for liberty and freedom.