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.
In regards to Poland, the Poles behaved shamefully in regard to Czechoslovakia. They were only to eager to throw the Czechs under Hitler’s bus, and grabbed an insignificant part of Czechoslovakia as payment for their complicity. How short-sighted of them. German occupation of Czechoslovakia deprived Poland of the one ally that could have provided real assistance when their number inevitably came up. And, it allowed the Germans a longer flank to enter Poland from the south, which they used to Poland’s disadvantage later.
As for the ads, I loved the ad for the radio. Oh, the good old days, when home electronics were as big as a dresser or end table, and accordingly they were built as furniture. My great-uncle had a radio like that, which I acquired from his estate. The radio was built by RCA in 1937. Up to about 1990, it still worked, and picked up the BBC World Service. Since then, I’ve disposed of the electronic “guts.” The rest of it is still a beautiful piece of furniture, and is sitting in my garage waiting for me to decide what I’m going to make out of it.