THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The Yanks learn what apocalyptic meansMarshall has a brand new idea
Chapter 123
Fortunately for the Yanks, they had a great general named iGeorge Catlett Marshall,
2Who was so brilliant that he thought up a great idea all by himself,
3Without any help from anyone,
4And gave it to the president,
5Who must have been Truman,
6aSince Roosevelt was still dead.
7George’s brilliantly original idea was to create a new kind of peace in western Europe,
8bA kind of peace that would bury the hatchet forever,
9cAnd make it easier for the Europeans to get along with each other in future,
10dBecause they couldn’t keep going out and killing twenty or thirty million of each other’s troops every twenty years or so,
11eEvery time some lunatic in a comic-opera uniform decided that some country had always really belonged to some other country.
12fAnd so George thought up the idea of making generous peace terms,
13gThat wouldn’t make anyone bitter,
14hNot even Germany or Japan,
15Because it would be better for everybody if they rebuilt their bombed-out factories,
16And went back to work on important things,
17iLike making money.
18And if they had a problem,
19jThey could go resolve it peaceably in something like a League of Nations,
20Only better,
21kLike maybe the United Nations,
22Which should be in some nice, safe central location that all the Europeans could get to easily,
23lLike New York.
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