Xx-xx-xx01Munich Victory Without Bloodshed

The investing house broadcasting company brings you the sound of war. The actual sound record of World War II, 2,191 days from the time Hitler's Ponzar divisions moved across the Polish borders to the ceremony of the Japanese surrender aboard the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

World War II, the most terrible period of death and destruction in the long history of man. In World War II, a drama preserved for all time through the medium of radio, an era never to be forgotten.

Tonight, Munich, victory without bloodshed. This is the sound of war. It is an air raid signal. It was heard in Donzig on September 1, 1939. Two days later it was heard in London, Paris and Berlin.

And before many months would go by, the strange sound would be heard in strange places with strange sounding names, names like Koblen's, Essen, Louvain, and Timor. In every part of the globe, in every hour of the day, it is the sound of war. Technically World War II had an official beginning. This was on September 1, 1939, when German

Panzer divisions moved across the Polish border. To many though, the war began four years earlier. It is October 3, 1935, the place northeast Africa, the situation, Italian armies based in Italian Eritrea move across the borders of one of the oldest Christian nations in the world, Ethiopia.

Il Duce Mussolini has an old score to settle with the Ethiopians dating back to 1896. Then Italian troops were massacred at Adawa in an ill-fated attempt to conquer Ethiopia. Then it was men against men.

Now it was men against steel. The Italians had the steel. The League of Nations, without United States participation, acted quickly. They condemned the invasion and voted economic sanctions against Italy. It proved ineffective. The Great Experiment had failed.