According to Huth

For years to come the world is likely to depend on the U.S. as the supplier of radio sets and tubes.

This cheerful hint to the U.S. radio industry was offered last week as a serious opinion by a man entitled to have one--Arno Huth, encyclopedic international radio investigator of Switzerland's Geneva Research Center (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942).

Huth calculated that immediately after the war the U.S. would want eight to ten million receiving sets; Europe, five million; Latin America, two to three million; Asia, two million ("but Asia's demand may skyrocket within a few years to 20 million sets"). "The European industry," he continued, "will be unable to cover this demand. English factories will be busy filling home orders; the German industry will be badly wrecked by air raids; and the biggest European exporter, Holland's Philips' works in Eindhoven, must be rebuilt. France and Italy [will be out of] international competition for some time to come. Hungary's production capacity is a maximum of 50,000 sets annually. Switzerland and Sweden are both producing good-quality sets and might export to world markets. . . ."

Further observations from Author Huth's book, Radio Today and Tomorrow, being published in Zurich:

P: After the war London will have a "Radio City" like Manhattan's.

P: A development "likely to be imitated" is a new French station called Information Permanente which broadcasts nothing but information, including news (15 times a day), programs of the French radio, Paris opera, theater, cinema and vaudeville, stock-exchange prices, commercial news.

P: "There will be little immediate change in the average (postwar) radio set."

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