Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about three weeks contracts which will be signed for delivery of Saudi Arabia oil to Baltex oil and gas corporation in Malakoff in East Texas.

Interview with Ernest Gordon. Gordon was born in Scotland and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1939 at Stirling Castle. He was sent to Singapore in January 1940 before the Japanese invaded. Gordon recalls defending the Malay Peninsula starting in January 1942. Gordon was the last to go over the causeway into Singapore before it was destroyed. As Singapore fell, Gordon escaped to Sumatra. When Sumatra fell, Gordon escaped on a sailboat but was captured asea and sent back to Singapore where he entered Changi. He was sent north to build the Death Railway. He describes the conditions along the railway and the work environment.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to the members of the English-Speaking Union of the United States thanking them for inviting him to dinner with the ambassador of Malaysia and apologizing for being unable to attend.