Another Gem in Berlin

An American, and Englishman, a German and a Frenchman are sitting in a bar. The Englishman says "the French are always talking about some regulation in 1942 regarding pressure vessels." The American thinks 'so that is why the French capitulated so easily - so they could quickly solve their pressure vessel issues', but says aloud, "That's all the French had to think about in 1942, there wasn't anything more important?". The Frenchman and the German tensed up real good but luckily the old Englishman made a funny joke and the meeting the next day was very productive.


Brooks was telling me that in school, the French aren't taught about America's role in liberating them from the Germans. They must think that de Gaulle swam the channel with a band of merry men eating cheese and wearing berets and scarves who subsequently wiped out the Germans and their tanks while Ike was trading high fives, drinking brandy and smoking cigars with Churchill over a game of snooker.