THREE MEN AND A FISH
JOKE AGAINST HITLER BASLE, Jan. 2. The newspaper Schweizer Weltwroche has been seized by the Swiss censor because it contained a mild joke against Hitler. Here is the joke:— Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler were fishing in a pond. Chamberlain tried to catch the fish with his umbrella. Mussolini made a long speech about vita pericolosa (dangerous to convince the fish that they must surrender. Hitler took off his hat and bailed out the pond, leaving the fish high and dry. Mussolini then asks Hitler: “Why don’t you take the fish?” Hitler replies: “The fish must ask first.” (Allusion to German tactics in taking Austria and Czechoslovakia).
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 5
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