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Speaker 1: September twenty ninth, nineteen fifty Here is the Last Mission.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to to take a dangerous mission behind
Speaker 2: the enemy lines, knowing you may never return alive.
Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during
Speaker 3: the War of agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens to
Speaker 3: this question answered yes. This is Clock and Dagger, black warfare, espionage,
Speaker 3: international intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure,
Speaker 3: the last Mission, the story of an American OSS agent
Speaker 3: in Canton, China, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in
Speaker 3: the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a
Speaker 3: story that can now be told.
Speaker 4: He must have had another name, but I never knew
Speaker 4: what it was. Everybody on the waterfront called him Charlie.
Speaker 4: He was old and he limped, and he should have
Speaker 4: drunk less and shaved more. We'd see him on the
Speaker 4: walls in the afternoons, in his dirty dungarees and thorn sweater,
Speaker 4: begging cigarettes from sailors. Then evenings he would hobble into
Speaker 4: leechen Stoven, where I worked to beg for something else.
Speaker 2: Hey, turn you, Hey, Hey, ain't you gonna buy Charlie
Speaker 2: one little drink?
Speaker 5: He No, I'm not Charlie. No drinks on the house Tonight.
Speaker 2: Robert, Tonight, tonight, Geranti, be drinks in the house. Are
Speaker 2: you forgetting? It was just five years ago? Tonight? Canton
Speaker 2: Parallel Japanese. Hey, we gotta celebrate, don't we? What do
Speaker 2: you matter? I say something wrong?
Speaker 5: I don't like your sense of humor.
Speaker 2: I don't see what you got again, the Japs, Jenny,
Speaker 2: with all m nationalities mixed up in you, you probably
Speaker 2: got some Jap blood yourself.
Speaker 5: No, I haven't.
Speaker 4: Every other kind maybe Spanish and Russian, even Irish. But
Speaker 4: there's not a drop of job blood in the pony.
Speaker 2: Guess right, I don't get stealing up. I still say
Speaker 2: there's no reason for you to hate him. Why do
Speaker 2: you care who's running canton?
Speaker 4: I told him then. I don't know why I did.
Speaker 4: I never told anyone else how they had murdered my
Speaker 4: family nineteen six years before, my father, my mother, my
Speaker 4: two sisters. The Japs had killed them all, And if
Speaker 4: we hadn't got out of the city ahead of them,
Speaker 4: they'd have killed my brother, Florian and myself.
Speaker 2: So he wasn't always a waitress and a waterfront dive
Speaker 2: haunt on you.
Speaker 5: No, and my brother didn't always prowl the streets looking
Speaker 5: for trouble. I got the job to thank for that. No,
Speaker 5: maybe you can understand.
Speaker 2: We got visitors.
Speaker 5: What do they want now?
Speaker 2: Checking identification papers again?
Speaker 6: Uee, press arise always arise in the presence of the
Speaker 6: suggest Remember that he had to no your papers press here.
Speaker 6: Danya Bonnie born in Madrid. You are Spanish by you
Speaker 6: have Russian first name.
Speaker 5: And an Irish middle name. What does that make me?
Speaker 6: Perhaps makes you anyway Arian captain? Yes, it would be
Speaker 6: very Darrell in Canton. If we put all the beautiful
Speaker 6: girls in jail, that is true.
Speaker 2: You peppers. You know that, Miss Bunny. I know your
Speaker 2: peppers press who me. I ain't got no papers. Cavin
Speaker 2: what you're done with them? Don't know. I guess you
Speaker 2: must have lost him. What is nationality? I don't know
Speaker 2: that need and nobody never told me. Seems like I've
Speaker 2: been around Canton since it was knee high on you
Speaker 2: American perhaps American. That's good. I came away around I
Speaker 2: know not wait a minute, hour wa the horse is
Speaker 2: well here. I ain't gonna do you guys no good
Speaker 2: locked up on the brig. But I could help you
Speaker 2: plenty if I was free to and moves you around.
Speaker 2: The dogs you're coming out?
Speaker 7: What your man?
Speaker 2: Or man?
Speaker 8: How could that hep us.
Speaker 2: I get around? Cap'n Oh, Charlie talks to everybody, and
Speaker 2: everybody talks to me, and they ain't too careful what
Speaker 2: they say neither. If anybody was planning any monkey business,
Speaker 2: sabotagement or anything like that, oh, Charlie would be just
Speaker 2: about the first to know about it.
Speaker 5: And you would report it to us.
Speaker 9: Why not?
Speaker 2: You're the guys you're running the show. So you're the
Speaker 2: guys I take orders from you, know what I mean?
Speaker 4: They saw what he meant, and when they left, he
Speaker 4: was still sitting with me, grinning as if you were
Speaker 4: proud of what he had done. I got up without
Speaker 4: a word and went to the bar and bought a drink.
Speaker 4: I brought it back and held it out.
Speaker 2: Hey, did you buy that for me, Toney?
Speaker 5: Yes, I bought it for you.
Speaker 2: Well, now that's mighty nice. Have you let me have it?
Speaker 5: I'll let you have it there.
Speaker 2: What's the ideas thrown good whiskey in my face? What's
Speaker 2: the idea that I.
Speaker 4: Couldn't find words to tell you what I think of you, Charlie,
Speaker 4: But I wanted you.
Speaker 9: To know.
Speaker 4: I was sorry afterwards. After all, Charlie was old and
Speaker 4: hungry and half cracked. I should have saved it for
Speaker 4: somebody else, someone closer and dearer to me. I should
Speaker 4: have saved it from my brother. Florian was waiting.
Speaker 5: For me when I got home.
Speaker 9: I thought, you never get it here, Tanya, hurry up
Speaker 9: and change your clothes. We're going to a party.
Speaker 2: Party.
Speaker 5: What party, Florian?
Speaker 9: Well, it's sort of an anniversary banquet, you know, five
Speaker 9: years in Canton. There's gonna be a lot of important people.
Speaker 9: There are Chinese Japanese, both big celebration, and we're going
Speaker 9: to celebrate with them. We weren't invited, of course, but
Speaker 9: I know a fellow at the door. He's gonna let
Speaker 9: us in. We rubbed shoulders with some of the most
Speaker 9: important people in Canton, maybe.
Speaker 5: Even with the men who murdered your mother and father.
Speaker 9: Oh no, don't be like that, Tanya. That was a
Speaker 9: long time ago. These aren't the same fellows who took
Speaker 9: nineteen the Japanese.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you are not going to the party, Florian, we
Speaker 4: got nothing to celebrate.
Speaker 9: No, maybe you are not gone, But I am why
Speaker 9: because I know what side my bread is putting on us.
Speaker 9: Why the jump side, as long as the top dog. Yes,
Speaker 9: and it looked like they're going to be top dog
Speaker 9: for a long time.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 5: You're retraited to our family, Florine.
Speaker 9: We haven't got family, Tanya. We haven't got anything, and
Speaker 9: we never will have unless one of us starts playing
Speaker 9: on the winning team. See you later.
Speaker 4: I didn't sleep well that night, and lay there in
Speaker 4: the dark, feeling as if I were alone. You know,
Speaker 4: a world of enemies that same feeling haunted me all
Speaker 4: the next day at Leech and Charlie didn't come to
Speaker 4: the town, not even I didn't see him till I
Speaker 4: was through working, until I stepped out into the dark street.
Speaker 4: Then a shadowy figure came staggering up to me. You're drunk,
Speaker 4: charlieber go home.
Speaker 2: That's just when I was thinking, Orry, I can't see
Speaker 2: him together. The street keeps going around and circles. How
Speaker 2: about you kind of steal chowry on.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I want to get home myself. It's late.
Speaker 2: Come on, tell her this worrier purple child.
Speaker 5: He grabbed my arm and hung on to girl.
Speaker 4: It's seemed easier to do what he asked me to
Speaker 4: argue about very good girl. I had never seen his home,
Speaker 4: but he remembered the address, and I let him toward
Speaker 4: it through the deserted streets.
Speaker 2: Sir, here we are.
Speaker 4: It was the kind of place expect Charlie to live, in,
Speaker 4: a filthy, two story dump in the worst part of Canton.
Speaker 4: He was still holding my arm as I took his
Speaker 4: key and unlocked his door for him. Good night, Charlie,
Speaker 4: go to bed and sleep it off.
Speaker 2: No, good night, Jenny. We can have a red.
Speaker 5: I don't want it drunk.
Speaker 2: Come on anyway, come on, do you here?
Speaker 5: But he didn't let go.
Speaker 4: His fingers were like a vice around my waist. He
Speaker 4: jerked me across the treasure. He shoved me into the
Speaker 4: pitch black room and slammed the door.
Speaker 5: Where you, filthy old bomb let me out of here.
Speaker 9: Sorry.
Speaker 2: I had the man handle you like that. It was
Speaker 2: the only safe way of getting you in here.
Speaker 4: I thought someone else had said it. I thought there
Speaker 4: must be three of us in the room. Then the
Speaker 4: light flashed down and they were just two, just Charlie
Speaker 4: and me.
Speaker 8: Surprised, Dania, I'm sorry, but I have to play it safe.
Speaker 8: You see, Tania, I am an American, an agent of
Speaker 8: the OSS.
Speaker 4: I didn't speak and stared at him, tried to understand,
Speaker 4: tried to connect him with the shuffling little wolf rad
Speaker 4: i'd always known as Charlie.
Speaker 8: I realized, of course, Tanya, that this is something of
Speaker 8: an act of faith, exposing my identity to you like this.
Speaker 8: No one else in Canton knows who I am. I'd
Speaker 8: fort a long time before I decided to let you
Speaker 8: in on it. When you told me about your family,
Speaker 8: I had a hunch I could trust you, and then
Speaker 8: when you threw that drink in my face, I was
Speaker 8: sure of it.
Speaker 9: But I mean not right.
Speaker 8: I'm still Charlie.
Speaker 5: But why have you done this? Why should you trust
Speaker 5: me with your life?
Speaker 8: For a very good reason, because I need your help
Speaker 8: my head. You see, I've operated alone here for a
Speaker 8: long time. It has been too tough. But now no
Speaker 8: Jab intelligence is tightening up a lot of things. I
Speaker 8: can't do alone anymore. That's why I need you.
Speaker 5: But I have no experience. I don't know anything about.
Speaker 8: Courage, and you hate the Japanese. That's worth a lot
Speaker 8: more of an experience.
Speaker 5: What do you want me to do, Charlie?
Speaker 8: Come on upstairs?
Speaker 4: He led me up a long, narrow, muckety staircase. He
Speaker 4: opened the door to a tiny guard like a room
Speaker 4: just beneath the roof.
Speaker 5: It was hot and stuffy. The light they switched don
Speaker 5: was so dimmed that at first I couldn't see.
Speaker 2: Do you know what this is?
Speaker 5: Tanya radio transmitter?
Speaker 8: That's right. You send messages to whom American submarines operating
Speaker 8: off the Chinese coast, And what I send is all
Speaker 8: the information I can get about JAP shipping entering and
Speaker 8: leaving the port of Canton. I see, Danya, you wait
Speaker 8: on sailors at leech hands all day.
Speaker 5: You drink with I've never drunk with a Japanese sailor.
Speaker 8: But you could. Sailors talk a lot when they're drunk,
Speaker 8: and if they don't talk enough, I could provide you
Speaker 8: with knockout drops. They'd sleep peacefully while you examined their papers.
Speaker 8: He I see it scares you a little and little, yes,
Speaker 8: you see what a lever on the wall? Homos touched
Speaker 8: it better enough.
Speaker 5: Oh what is it, Charlie.
Speaker 8: It's a little precaution I've taken. I wouldn't want this
Speaker 8: transmitter to fall into Japanese hands. They could do a
Speaker 8: great deal of damage with her. But the lever in
Speaker 8: the wall that can do a great deal of damage too.
Speaker 8: It sets off an explosive that it blows building sky high.
Speaker 4: I wasn't sorry to leave that room. We went downstairs.
Speaker 4: A few minutes later. He stood in front of me
Speaker 4: watching me.
Speaker 8: Tania, let me explain something. We're all volunteers in the OSS,
Speaker 8: and the people who help us are volunteers too. You
Speaker 8: don't have to do this unless you want to.
Speaker 5: I understand Charlie.
Speaker 8: If you refuse, I won't worry about what you know.
Speaker 8: I'll still trust you.
Speaker 5: I don't intend to refuse.
Speaker 8: It doesn't scare you too much.
Speaker 5: When I think of my father and mother and sister,
Speaker 5: it doesn't scare me at all.
Speaker 8: It's a deal.
Speaker 5: It's a deal, I am.
Speaker 2: I don't have any liquor.
Speaker 8: We might have a smoke on the tone American cigarettes.
Speaker 5: I haven't had one for years.
Speaker 8: Thanks to a free world, Tanya, to a free world.
Speaker 5: That night, I slept work now I had friends and allies.
Speaker 4: That is, I slept well until sometime shortly before dawn,
Speaker 4: and then the sound of my bedroom door opening awoke me.
Speaker 4: I wasn't frightened. I knew who it was and what
Speaker 4: he wanted had happened so many times before. I waited
Speaker 4: until he reached my dresser, until he bent over my purse.
Speaker 4: Don't take any of my money, Florian, Oh, oh you well,
Speaker 4: I was just yes, I know, but I really can't
Speaker 4: spare any of this week.
Speaker 5: I need a little I got.
Speaker 9: You don't need it any more than I do. I'm broke, Tanya.
Speaker 9: Know where am I supposed to get money to live on?
Speaker 5: Not out of my purse, please close it, Florian?
Speaker 9: All right, all right? Where is it? Hey? What's this?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 9: Where you get these?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 5: Florian?
Speaker 9: These American cigarettes?
Speaker 4: I got them at the tavern who from from a
Speaker 4: job soldier? A job so yeah, he had taken them
Speaker 4: off an American prisoner war and.
Speaker 9: A job gave them to you?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 9: Are you accepted them?
Speaker 5: Naturally? I accepted them?
Speaker 9: Where So now my noble sister is accepting gifts from
Speaker 9: the enemy. Either you had a great change of heart
Speaker 9: on you or else?
Speaker 2: Else?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 9: Or else.
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 4: And beginning the very next night, I flirted with every
Speaker 4: job sailor who came into lead chains. I kept my
Speaker 4: mouth closed and my ears open. I used every trick
Speaker 4: I knew to persuade them to talk, and when it
Speaker 4: became necessary, I used something else, a little white pills
Speaker 4: that Charlie had given me.
Speaker 8: Nama to drink.
Speaker 5: But the evening is young Dad, Come on, come on,
Speaker 5: let's drink it close to the Emperor. Stand up. Of course,
Speaker 5: you can't get you. Come on, that's it, nah, to
Speaker 5: this son of Heaven, his Imperial majesty.
Speaker 9: Drink.
Speaker 4: Oh it was so easy, Charlie, he was out cold.
Speaker 4: I just reached into his pocket and they were his papers.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry, not a soul.
Speaker 8: He put the papers back, of.
Speaker 5: Course, after I'd copied them. Here's the information.
Speaker 4: Am I doing, Charlie? I knew I was doing well,
Speaker 4: and as time went on, I did even better. We
Speaker 4: would hear reports on Charlie's radio a Jap ships, torpedo
Speaker 4: and song in Chinese waters, and Charlie would say, that.
Speaker 8: Was the baby you told me about last week. Chuck
Speaker 8: up another one for Tanya, the scourge of the Jab
Speaker 8: merchant marine.
Speaker 4: I was proud, and I was happy, and I believe
Speaker 4: my father and mother and sisters knew and that they
Speaker 4: were proud too. And then came the night I went
Speaker 4: straight from lee Chen's tavern to Charlie's house to tell
Speaker 4: him what I'd heard.
Speaker 2: Takoa Maroo. Huh. That's one of the nips biggest ships
Speaker 2: I know, Charlie.
Speaker 5: And she's carrying industrial machinery to Yokohama, one of those
Speaker 5: factories they've stripped in fu Chau.
Speaker 2: Sure about the sailing time, quite sure?
Speaker 5: Tomorrow night at ten o'clock.
Speaker 8: God enough, I'll tip off the sub dride away and
Speaker 8: they'll be laying for if she isn't traveling in convoy.
Speaker 9: She isn't check and they'll get her.
Speaker 2: Like a sitting duck.
Speaker 8: It's late, Tanya, better get going.
Speaker 5: I'll see you tomorrow, Charlie.
Speaker 8: During the day, I'm going down to Tonhose Junk on
Speaker 8: the river. I'll be back here by evening.
Speaker 5: Good night, Charlie.
Speaker 8: Let me see if the coast is clear. Okay, go ahead,
Speaker 8: good night.
Speaker 9: Late.
Speaker 5: The streets were dark and deserted.
Speaker 4: I would have taken a rickshaw home, but it was
Speaker 4: too late for that, so I walked, or rather I
Speaker 4: tried to walk, but it was hard to keep myself
Speaker 4: from running. I told myself I was a fool to
Speaker 4: be afraid. The streets were safer than in broad daylight.
Speaker 4: There was no one on them. There was no one
Speaker 4: who could possibly I stopped. I thought I heard footsteps,
Speaker 4: someone walking behind me.
Speaker 5: I turned.
Speaker 4: There was no one there, at least I couldn't see anyone.
Speaker 4: I started walking faster, and I grabbed the revolver that
Speaker 4: Charlie had given me, and then I heard.
Speaker 5: The sound again. This time I stopped. The world around.
Speaker 4: There was a street lamp behind me, and I saw
Speaker 4: a shadow on the wall of the building.
Speaker 5: The shadow of a man.
Speaker 8: Was there.
Speaker 5: Come up and show me who you are.
Speaker 9: If you don't not shoot, Take it easy time, Florian.
Speaker 9: You wouldn't want to shoot your own brother with you?
Speaker 5: Florian? What are you doing here? Where will you follow me?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Just curious, that's all. I've been wondering for quite a
Speaker 9: while what you were up to?
Speaker 5: Quite a while.
Speaker 9: I've seen you go to that place several times. I
Speaker 9: even took the trouble to find out who lives there.
Speaker 9: It's an old Furday called Charlie.
Speaker 5: That's right, Charlie does live there. He's sick.
Speaker 9: Oh, he's sick. Is just just an error of mercy?
Speaker 5: Huh, exactly, an errand of mercy? You what as if
Speaker 5: you didn't believe me?
Speaker 9: Of course i'd believe you. I certainly don't think you're
Speaker 9: in love with you, oh boy? And what other reason
Speaker 9: would you have to visit him?
Speaker 5: We walked the rest of the way home together.
Speaker 4: I was sure he didn't believe me, But I couldn't
Speaker 4: go back to Charlie to warn him, not without getting
Speaker 4: florry and more suspicious in the morning, I thought, But
Speaker 4: then I remembered that Charlie would be on Tonghaw's junk
Speaker 4: on the river in the morning. Leechen's Stabborn opened at
Speaker 4: noon the next day. The minute I walked in, I
Speaker 4: knew something was wrong. There were too many Japanese soldiers,
Speaker 4: far too many. They sat at the bar drinking, They
Speaker 4: played cards at the tables. They lounged against the walls,
Speaker 4: puffing their cigarettes and eyeing me as I crossed the
Speaker 4: room and whispered to lee.
Speaker 5: Chen, why are there so many of them?
Speaker 8: Lie Chen, Maybe your plather can't tell you.
Speaker 5: Tanna, my brother he and back home.
Speaker 8: He said, you come back see him.
Speaker 5: I knew then that I was sick with anger and shame.
Speaker 4: But I was sicker still when I saw him sitting
Speaker 4: alone in that back room, when I saw this smirking
Speaker 4: triumph on his face.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Tanya, that's your sick friend this morning. Don't
Speaker 9: stand and stay. I haven't done anything so terrible. After all,
Speaker 9: one spy more or less.
Speaker 5: How much did they pay you, Florian?
Speaker 9: Quite a bit, it seems if known for a long
Speaker 9: time there was one operating in Canton. They haven't been
Speaker 9: able to get their hands.
Speaker 5: On him until you betrayed him.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, they still haven't found him. There are some
Speaker 9: soldiers waiting for him over at this place where you
Speaker 9: went last night. I mean, and there's a crowd of
Speaker 9: them here. They about me pick him up pretty soon.
Speaker 5: Didn't you get a bonus for betraying me too?
Speaker 9: Or I might have, but I wouldn't sell out my
Speaker 9: own sister.
Speaker 2: I kept you under clear.
Speaker 9: I told you helped me spottle.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Florian.
Speaker 8: I'm not at all Danya.
Speaker 9: By the way, I can pay you back some of
Speaker 9: the money I lifted from your purse. After all, if
Speaker 9: it weren't for you, I wouldn't be sitting ready now
Speaker 9: with a couple of hundred yen even the score. Huh,
Speaker 9: Why you say?
Speaker 4: There was so much I could have said, but I
Speaker 4: didn't waste the time. Only one thing mattered now Charlie
Speaker 4: was still free. I swore, by the memory of my
Speaker 4: mother and father that I would keep him free. It
Speaker 4: was a half hour before I managed to slip away
Speaker 4: from me chins unnoticed. Charlie had introduced me to Tongue Hall,
Speaker 4: and I had been aboard his junk the week before,
Speaker 4: so the gorillas on guard around the board recognized me.
Speaker 5: That led me to a cabin. It's Doanya, Charlie.
Speaker 8: Anya, I thought you were tongue Ho. He just wanted
Speaker 8: to show the me, the courier from Hong Kong, some
Speaker 8: sort of important not.
Speaker 4: As important as the news I I have for you.
Speaker 4: I poured it all out and he listened thoughtfully.
Speaker 2: I found the transmitter, of course, but that's not good
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 5: Couldn't they use it to send false messages?
Speaker 9: Without the code book?
Speaker 8: The subs would know the messages were funny, they'd figure
Speaker 8: out what had happened.
Speaker 5: But where is the codebook?
Speaker 2: Right here?
Speaker 5: Charlie, Then there's no reason why you can't escape.
Speaker 8: Oh no, that I can see my usefulness and Canton
Speaker 8: is over. Yeah, they'll pull out both of us. You'll
Speaker 8: take me with you, sure, Tomhoe will take us up
Speaker 8: rivert here he is now. I hope that courier's report
Speaker 8: was better than the news Tanya brought me Tongho.
Speaker 9: It was about captive American flyers, Charlie.
Speaker 8: What about them?
Speaker 7: We'll tell them have been brought into contound. They're being
Speaker 7: sent to prison camps in Japan. They sell tonight aboard
Speaker 7: the Coca Maru.
Speaker 8: Takota Marule, Charlie.
Speaker 5: That's the ship I told you about last night.
Speaker 7: It's the ship already of the subs a torpedo, well,
Speaker 7: torpedo our own men, then, Charlie, I.
Speaker 2: Will if I don't count amand the order.
Speaker 8: Gotta let them know the flyers are aboard.
Speaker 2: You gotta let the chip go through.
Speaker 4: You cannot tell them, Charlie, you cannot get to the transmitter.
Speaker 4: I have to Japanese soldiers.
Speaker 5: They're waiting for you.
Speaker 2: I get past them somehow shortly.
Speaker 5: No, don't go back there. They'll kill you if you.
Speaker 8: Do, and they'll kill those flyers if I don't. There
Speaker 8: are fifty of them, there's only one of me.
Speaker 4: I said I would go back to it. I said
Speaker 4: he would need help getting past the jumps. I said
Speaker 4: I wouldn't leave Canton without him. And in the end,
Speaker 4: because I let them no choice, he allowed me to
Speaker 4: stay at his side. He told me his plans before
Speaker 4: we left the boat.
Speaker 8: Be waiting for me in the room downstairs. But we
Speaker 8: won't go that way. There's a trap door and the
Speaker 8: ceiling of the radio room. If we can get into
Speaker 8: the building next door and out under the roof, we'll
Speaker 8: be able to jump over under my building. We may
Speaker 8: get in and send the message without even letting them
Speaker 8: Nowhere there.
Speaker 4: A half hour later we were creeping up the stairs
Speaker 4: of the building next door. A few minutes later we
Speaker 4: stood huddled on the edge of the adjoining roof.
Speaker 8: All right, that's jump. Try to land us quietly as
Speaker 8: she can, and.
Speaker 4: Then flatten our stomachs. We crawled toward the trap door
Speaker 4: and tried open it to rusty hinges, and lowered ourselves
Speaker 4: into the radio room. Charlie sat down at the transmitter,
Speaker 4: his cold book in his hand. I went to the door,
Speaker 4: my revolver and mine.
Speaker 5: Have you made contact with them, Charlie?
Speaker 2: They answered downstairs.
Speaker 5: No, not yet, Charlie.
Speaker 11: Hurry, yes, but if you, Charlie, yes, listen, someone coming upstairs,
Speaker 11: two of them, at least maybe three.
Speaker 8: Okay, get going down. No click, I through the trap
Speaker 8: door and over the roof, does a order. I'll be
Speaker 8: right behind you. I made contact. Now all I have
Speaker 8: to do is finish the message. Now get out of here.
Speaker 5: It was a lie.
Speaker 4: It was the only liar that Charlie ever told me.
Speaker 4: And I crossed the roof and looked behind me, and
Speaker 4: he wasn't there. I went down the stairs next door
Speaker 4: and out onto the street, and he still wasn't there.
Speaker 4: I moved quickly through the crowd, still looking back, still waiting,
Speaker 4: and still hoping.
Speaker 5: And then he had pulled the lever that destroyed the transmitter.
Speaker 4: Later, a long time later, I learned that the Kotamaro
Speaker 4: had passed safely through the submarines with fifty American flyers aboard.
Speaker 4: Charlie had sent his message in time. He had performed
Speaker 4: this last service for the OSS, The last but one,
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 8: The very last, had been.
Speaker 5: To die for it.
Speaker 3: And once again the report of another OSS agent closes
Speaker 3: with the words mission accomplished. Listen again next week for
Speaker 3: another true adventure from the files of the OSS on.
Speaker 2: Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 10: Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure as Charlie was
Speaker 10: Ian Martin, Tanya ran A, Raven Florian, Arnoldmarsh. Others were
Speaker 10: Ralph Bell, Raymond Dwood, Johnson, Carl Weber and Guy Repp.
Speaker 10: Script was written by Kenfield and music was under the
Speaker 10: direction of John Guard. Sound effects by Max Russell and
Speaker 10: Frank Lucker. Engineering Don Evan. Today's OSS Adventure was based
Speaker 10: on the book Plunk and Dagger by Corey Ford and
Speaker 10: Alistair McBain. This program is produced by Lewis g. Cohen
Speaker 10: and Alfred Hollande under the direction and supervision of Sherman Marx.
Speaker 2: Three Times Mean Good Times on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This is a very different episode in the
Speaker 1: way that it's open. You know, usually you have the
Speaker 1: OSS as in Getting the Mission. Here, you're just kind
Speaker 1: of waiting for the OSS angle to come in. This
Speaker 1: time we get a story that is told from the
Speaker 1: perspective of a local working for the OSS. It's a
Speaker 1: very earthy story for the era. It also touches on
Speaker 1: the brutality of the Japanese government, which is part of
Speaker 1: the reason why so many people were willing to allig
Speaker 1: themselves against the Japanese government. I just have to say
Speaker 1: that Brenda Rayburn is just great in this. She's a
Speaker 1: fantastic performer and also a really good narrator and brings
Speaker 1: the story to life and helps us to really connect
Speaker 1: with this character and her motivations and really flushed out
Speaker 1: this character. And she is so unique for a viewpoint character.
Speaker 1: I don't believe I have ever heard a character like
Speaker 1: her as this again, this sort of viewpoint character. Ian
Speaker 1: Martin of course, was also great, and I was a
Speaker 1: bit stunned when I heard the real voice after having
Speaker 1: heard the undercover Charlie voice, because I expected the real
Speaker 1: voice to at least be in the same range, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I would never have guessed it was the
Speaker 1: same actor doing both voices. And it illustrates the difficulty
Speaker 1: that we have coming up with cast list if they're
Speaker 1: not included in the broadcast or newspaper log or in
Speaker 1: a script, because you have performers like Martin. If he
Speaker 1: was doing doubles as two different characters and it was
Speaker 1: on one of those anthology programs that didn't feature credits,
Speaker 1: I never would have guessed that it was the same guy.
Speaker 1: Now it's important to note that Ian Martin would be
Speaker 1: a really important figure in the revival of the Golden
Speaker 1: Age of radio. He would appear in two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three episodes of the CBS Radio Street Theater. He'd
Speaker 1: also write around one hundred scraps and scraps for Adventure Theater.
Speaker 1: Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we
Speaker 1: returned to a subject that first came up as a
Speaker 1: result of someone listening to the episode The Roof of
Speaker 1: the World and commenting that one of the characters pronounced
Speaker 1: the word Himalayas as Himalia, and I kind of responded
Speaker 1: trying to think about why that error or blooper mutt
Speaker 1: have happened, either you know, todd production times or what
Speaker 1: have you. But another listener responded with a perspective. Cuthbert writes,
Speaker 1: actually her pronunciation was correct. We Westerners have anglicized it. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for Kuthport sharing that on YouTube.
Speaker 1: And there's some truth to the fact that we've anglicized it,
Speaker 1: Like if I were to say the Himalayas, that would
Speaker 1: not be a pronunciation that a native speaker would use
Speaker 1: with the ass at the end. But how do you
Speaker 1: actually pronounce it? Well, it's quite complicated. Sir Jeffrey Corbett,
Speaker 1: back in nineteen twenty nine, writing in the newsletter for
Speaker 1: the Himalayan Club, shared that he had been a member
Speaker 1: of the Indian legislature, which included people from all over India,
Speaker 1: and they actually stopped work for a morning to discuss
Speaker 1: how the word should be pronounced. And they were given
Speaker 1: two answers from northern India, depending on whether you spoke
Speaker 1: Hindi or whether you spoke Urdu. And then there was
Speaker 1: a different answer from those who were from Bengal and
Speaker 1: still another pronunciation from those who were from southern India.
Speaker 1: So it's tough to say that she was pronouncing it
Speaker 1: correctly when there was a big debate over what was
Speaker 1: correct and it depends on where you came from. I
Speaker 1: will say that I don't know if we should assume
Speaker 1: that it was a mistake on the part of the
Speaker 1: actress or production team. It could be that it was
Speaker 1: intended to be read exactly how it was read, and
Speaker 1: was meant to send a signal about the type of
Speaker 1: person that she was as a professional with local sensitivities
Speaker 1: and inability to reach out and work with a variety
Speaker 1: of people, which would be extremely helpful on this mission.
Speaker 1: Now that said, I don't know how much that pronunciation
Speaker 1: would have helped. While the Tibetans do have a word
Speaker 1: for the Himalayas in their language, the origin of the
Speaker 1: name is Sanskrit. But regardless, I think that at this
Speaker 1: point I give benefit of the doubt that there is
Speaker 1: a reason for the pronunciation rather than a bungling by
Speaker 1: Luis Barklay of the line or Sherman Marx as a director,
Speaker 1: because Barklay gave a really good performance and I don't
Speaker 1: think Sherman Marx has really missed a whole lot in
Speaker 1: all the time we've been listening to the series, all right. Well,
Speaker 1: a programming note and that is that we actually only
Speaker 1: have three more weeks of Cloak Anddegger to go, and
Speaker 1: after that we will be going into our holiday break
Speaker 1: and I'll have more to talk about what you'll hear.
Speaker 2: In those intervening weeks.
Speaker 1: And after that we will have a couple of anthology
Speaker 1: episodes that tie into the Oss theme before getting to
Speaker 1: our next series, which will be Counterspot. Well, now it
Speaker 1: is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
Speaker 1: and I want to thank Douglas, Patreon supporter since January,
Speaker 1: currently supporting the podcast at the secret Agent level of
Speaker 1: four dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: your support, Douglas, And that will do it for today.
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Speaker 1: Join us back here tomorrow for our Thanksgiving week encore,
Speaker 1: and then we return to the normal lineup on Monday
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Speaker 1: your host, Adam Graham signing off.