Foreign News: April Laughter

These jokes were news in jampacked, preinvasion Britain:

¶ A British soldier and a U.S. soldier were standing in Piccadilly Circus when a dilapidated car drove up. Said the Yank: "What a wreck! Do you know what we would do if a car like that drove up in Times Square?"

"Well," mused the Briton, "if you treated it as you treat everything else, you'd either drink it or kiss it." ¶ At 4 a.m. a Downing Street flunky rapped on Churchill's door, said that there was an urgent call for...

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