The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-16
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 Recently MT. staIin of Moscow gave d banquet for members of the Red Army General Staff and Com nnunist Party leaders When Etalin arrived after a little delay, he took his seat on the dais and, raising glass of vodka, said: Com rades, I now give. a toast. give a toast to the great Stalin !. To the wonderful StaIin ,. N. To Stalin, the leader of Russia's warriors and 1 sincerely hope and trust that is N1e last I will hear about him at this affairI''
 This one comes from underground Norway ... Entering his office one evening, Propaganda Minister Lunde found g charwonlan busy scrubbing the floor Lunde did all sorts of acrobatics admiring and rearranging a portrait of Quisling Y. "What a beautiful portraitl" he, said so she could hear The charwoman remained silent . Lunde tried it again Still no recognition .. Finally he believed: What a picture on the wall!"
 Without looking up, the char woman remarked: "The walls are no concern of mine. My job is to remove the filth-from the floorsl' The failure of the Nazis to invade England in 194O inspired several puips about them One German woman was brought into court, charged with listening to British broadcasts She alibied: T had been told that the Fuehrer would talk from London in October, and I didn't want to miss thatl" . Tn Amsterdam, about that time, a Nazi officer got on 8 bus ]. The conductor remarked sarcastically: 'Whatl Back so soon?"
 Many thousands of = German Would-be commandos were believed to have drowned in that abortive ate tempt So the Dutch spread the fable about the baby shark that asked its mama: What are we hav- ing for dinner tonight9" ;. Mama said: Germans" .. Baby groaned: "Again2"
 Johanna Maria Vincent, the be- loved Dutch thrush, was about to begin a concert in Amsterdam, when in walked Seyss-Inquart, the Hit ler-chosen commiSsar. The Spec- tators remained silent .. Someone on the platform urged Miss Vincent to acknowledge the Nazi puppets arrival, by saying: Your govern ment is here, madaml"
 My government" she shouted, lis in London!"
 A patriotic and popular Dutch comedian joined Miss Vincent in a concentration camp because of pulling this gag He'd walk out on the stage carrying two huge nke- nuesses of Hitler and Goering, and say: T don't know what to do with these. Put them against a wall or hang them."
 Poland has new religious holiday of mourning. It is called "Black Christmas" It started Christ mas eve of 1940 It will never be forgotten by those still living in Warn@w and Lodz That was the memorable night when houses with out coal. wood or oil all had active chimneys pouring out endless streams of black, stinking smoke .. That was the night the Poles made Goeboels look sillier. Weeks earlier he had announced that Ger man soldiers would make a house to hoCse canvass to get woolens and clothing for the German army !. The Poles took their woolens off their backs and fed them to their furnaces.
 War correspondents, who related all of these to the colyum recently, claim they heard this in London re- gently. Hitler allegedly hauled Goebbels over the coals for Hopping on the job of discrediting Presi- dent Roosevelt T did what you told me to do," whined Goebbels. q accused him of dictatorship l blamed him for dragging his nation into the war, and I charged him with plotting to do away with elec- tionsl"
 "Dumkopfl" parked Hitler. "Get busy! Call him some names-foul terrible, insulting, horrible names!
 Look" said Goebbels, "heis been through three Presidential cam paigns. They've called him every thing already"
 None of the warriors in this war boast of their soft jobs, can top the hero of A. Woollcott's anecdote That private was living in tent in the mud of Brest in the last war when he was picked as the aide to a military big shot .. During the entire war he was stationed in Paris eating elegantly, will supplied with coin, dwelling in Snazzy inn and frisking around with the loveliel mam-zells :. The armistice ended his rich life and almost broke his heart On his way back to America, he passed through BreSt eAN looked up his old buddy, still Ewing in the same army tepee ~You were c chump to leave" said the buddy. "Right after you went promoted a wooden floor tor the tent"
 This one is vouched for by a high official of the American lines;