12 aEspecially if you were trying to blow up a fascist bridge in Spain,
13 bWhich is such a universal experience that it kind of proved how everybody was really in the same boat,
14 cEven if the overwhelming majority of Yanks still didn't have any interest at all in getting involved with the Europeans again,
15 dNo matter how picturesque they were.
CHAPTER 1011 In fact, the Yanks had decided to really put their foot down this time,
2 And not get involved no matter what,
3 Because now that eProhibition had been repealed,
4 The Yanks had better things to do than get tricked into another European comic opera,
5 Which always featured a lot of elaborate fplots, gfancy costumes, and hblood-drenched battlefields,
6 iAnd not much else.
7 So the Yanks stuck pretty firmly to their policy of ignoring Europe,
8 And when the newsreels started filling up with great jcomic-opera footage of Nazi rallies that were even more elaborately staged than a kBusby Berkeley production number,
9 The Yanks just yawned and told lKraut jokes.
10 When the Italians topped the Krauts by making mMussolini and his henchmen wear even sillier uniforms than the Nazis,
11 The Yanks just yawned and told nWop jokes.
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12 oWhen rumors started circulating that the Krauts were persecuting the Jews and even putting some of them in concentration camps,
13 The Yanks just yawned and told pJew jokes.
14 qWhen Hitler started getting really rambunctious and annexed Austria,
15 The Yanks yawned and discovered they didn't know any jokes about Austrians, so they laughed instead at the spineless rFrogs and sBrits who let Hitler get away with it.
16 tWhen Hitler grabbed Czechoslovakia, the Yanks laughed at uNeville Chamberlain and his prissy little vumbrella.
17 wAnd when Hitler invaded Poland, the Yanks breathed a sigh of relief,
18 Because if there's one thing the Yanks have a lot of, it's xPolish jokes.
CHAPTER 1021 When they had all stopped laughing about Poland,
2 yThe Yanks discovered that it was getting a lot harder all of a sudden to completely ignore Hitler,
3 Because comical as he was,
4 He certainly seemed to have the Europeans' number,
5 And wasn't wasting any time at all in taking what he wanted.
6 zSo even though it wasn't any big surprise when the Krauts demolished the Maginot Line in about an hour and a half,
7 aaAll the Frog jokes the Yanks told each other were starting to have a hollow ring,
8 bbBecause there wasn't going to be a big trench in France this time,
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