FOREIGN FRIENDS AND WOES

FRENCH ANNOUNCE THEY REMEMBER WORLD WAR II

Prime Minister Jacques Chirac announced that the French government, in an
unexpected about face, plans to demonstrate his nation’s gratitude for America’s help in liberating it from the Nazi occupation during World War II.

There is, in fact, an unconfirmed rumor that he intends to suggest the establishment of a French national holiday to be known as Merci Beaucoup, Amerique!

While many in the French Parliament demonstrated vociferous displeasure at the mere suggestion of such an unexpected intimation of appreciation, Chirac has vowed to persist.

So far public reaction has been mixed.  At a speech at the Arch du Triumph, intended to defend his idea, he was pelted with baguettes.

He was able to transform much of the fury of the demonstrators into vibrant applause by catching one of the crispy, golden missiles, taking a bite out of it, and, in a transparent effort to stimulate the demand for French baked goods, paraphrased one of the much over-credited incitements to the French Revolution: “Let them eat bread.”  

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