FRANCE: Swastika in Paris

The thought of Hitler makes Frenchmen nervous as witches. Last week many a Parisian caught sight of an automobile whizzing by with what looked like the Nazi swastika flag. When they spotted a second and a third, they concluded that German Nazis were swarming into Paris. They rushed to telephones and babbled their information to the police. Then they went out into the street ready to tear apart the next Nazi automobile they saw. Meanwhile Paris police began to look for the mysterious Nazi cars.

The solution: Paris Jews had printed thousands of...

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