John Nesbitt credited as playing...
Narrator
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Taken from the dusty archives of another nation, this is the story of one of the unknown giants of the passing parade - a strange man who loved danger and adventure, who could twist a horseshoe with his bare hands, go a thousand miles on skis, yet who spent most of his life behind an office desk, and managed to win the great Nobel Prize not once, but twice. And thereby is found the forgotten story of Fridtjof Nansen, giant of Norway.
- [last lines]
- Narrator: Today, over the plains of Europe, new races of refugees cry out for such a man as this - a man who can see beyond international boundaries into the lives of men and women, no matter what religion they believe, to what they race they belong, what language they speak. But as long as there are human hearts that will beat more strongly at the word "valor", the name Nansen will not be forgotten,
- Narrator: War committee, to peace committee, to alien committee, to immigration committee - and everywhere you meet, talk, talk, talk. We'll hold a meeting, we'll take a vote, we'll hold a conference, we'll pass a resolution. Talk, talk, talk - never any action. Next week, next month, next spring!... never.
- Narrator: Nansen was the man of action; these were the men of words, squabbling over the map of Europe, writing polite notes, bowing and scraping, going to embassy teas, and posing for the newspapermen. Well, now they'd have to look after the war victims by themselves.
- Narrator: You have to have been broke, gone hungry, been kicked around, before you learn that before anybody's a Chinaman, or a German, or a Russian, he is a man.