[Homer_J_Simpson]

If you would like to be added to or deleted from the Real Time +/- 70 Years ping list, send me a freepmail. The frequency of the posts will increase slightly in September 1938 due to the events of that month – a key period for the twentieth century.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I have decided, in order to recover some of my publishing costs, to run a few advertisements now and then along with my news items. I have lined up a few accounts and the initial roll-outs are in today’s posts. It was surprisingly easy. Everyone wants to advertise on Free Republic. I would have just held a Homer-thon, but I figured Jim might get bent out of shape if I stepped on the Q3 Freepathon.

So please view the ads and patronize my sponsors. And if that Philco X Model radio set seems expensive even at the low, low sale price of $44.95, remember that you are not just getting the benefit of cutting-edge technology. You are also getting an elegant piece of furniture for your living room or den.

[GreenLanternCorps]

$44.95 for a radio! Highway robbery.

I have a phonograph and subscriptions to both the Herald-Tribune and the Brooklyn Eagle, whatever would I need a fad like radio for?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

9/3/38 update

On September 3, Hitler convoked the chiefs of OKW and OKH, Keitel and Brauchitsch, to the Berghof. Field units, it was agreed, were to be moved into position along the Czech border on September 28. But OKW must know when X Day was by noon on September 27. HItler was not satisfied with the operational plan for "Green" and ordered that it be changed in several respects. From the notes of this meeting kept by Major Schmundt it is clear that Brauchitsch at least - for Keitel was too much the toady to speak up - again raised the question of how they were going to hold out in the west. Hitler fobbed him off with the assurance that he had given orders for speeding up the western fortifications.

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Pg. 378