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The March of Time*
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Music. — Fanfare.
VAN.f — The March of Time!
Music. — Second fanfare.
Van. — Life !
Voice. — The Hfe of the world, its conflicts and achievements, its news and fun, its leaders and its common people.
Music. — March.
Van. — Tonight, hour after hour, by short-wave wireless through the ether and along the cables undersea, the news piles up from the capitals of Europe . . . world-shaking, momentous news that sends Britain’s grave Prime Minister flying to Adolf Hitler and President Roosevelt hurrying back to Washington . . . the grim, portentous news that Sudeten Germans are in armed revolt, and behind every dispatch the mounting fear that the field-gray German regiments, mobilized and ready, may march into Czechoslovakia. All this week, day after day, and every hour of each day, the news poured in . . . and tomorrow and all next week news will come from London, from Paris, from Prague, from Berlin. And as the headlines record each flying fact and rumor. United States citizens watch and wait and try to understand.
Voice of Time. — Life, the magazine of pictures, has one single and continuing purpose ... to bring the events of our times and the people of our world before the eyes of its readers with the new impact and understanding that only pictures can give. Readers of Life have a keener comprehension of the crisis of this week, for they have seen France’s impenetrable Maginot line and the amazing defenses of little Czechoslovakia, where lies Europe’s destiny. They have gone with Life to look upon the faces of the people of
* Copyright, 1938, by Time, Inc. t Cornelius VanVoorhies, the Voice of Time.