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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365911" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Corporal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The History Reconstruction Arm<br>Of the Ministry of Offence, <br>Had called me in for a meeting<br>With the Chiefs of Recompense, <br>They said they needed an agent, <br>Prepared to risk his all, <br>‘We have the technology waiting<br>Now we need to change the world.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shelves in the shops were empty<br>People fought for a loaf of bread, <br>Butter was unobtainable<br>And so was cheese, they said, <br>The ration cards have been in place<br>For fifty years or more, <br>The money was spent on the army, sent<br>To fight this terrible war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank God it hasn't gone nuclear, <br>But they said that it never would, <br>The threat of retaliation kept<br>The armies where they stood, <br>The Reds are commanding the channel coast<br>Right down to the Pyrenees.<br>And Britain is standing alone again<br>Though they've brought us to our knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Fascists in Whitechapel<br>With their propaganda rule, <br>While down in Brixham Prison <br>Lie the hopes and dreams of fools, <br>They shot the Liberal Poets and <br>Wiped out the socialist left, <br>They say what's good for the country<br>Is the strong arm of the west! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The States are a bristling fortress<br>But they'll never come to our aid, <br>They say whatever they owed us<br>Was in 14-18 paid, <br>They've colonised the Pacific<br>Made New Zealand just a State, <br>Australia's turned their backs on us<br>And left us to our fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘We've studied where it all went wrong, '<br>Said General Angus Pryde, <br>‘The Treaty of Rapallo is where<br>The hopes for peace had died, <br>That treaty, with the Russians helped<br>The Germans to re-arm, <br>Under the cloak of Soviet help, <br>That sounded the alarm! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘The man was Walter Rathenau<br>Who signed that evil form, <br>Sold Germany to the communists<br>That's where this war was born, <br>The Reds then flooded Germany, <br>The Reds took over France, <br>It was only the fact of the channel coast<br>That halted their advance.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘This Rathenau was the leader when<br>The war was first declared, <br>The whole of history hinged on him<br>And caught us unprepared, <br>So what we're now proposing is<br>The thing you need to do, <br>Go back, assassinate Rathenau<br>In 1922.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Before or after the treaty's signed? '<br>I asked the generals there, <br>They each looked, one at the other, said<br>They didn't really care.<br>‘To stop the Communist Party taking<br>Over the German mind, <br>We'd rather a swing to the right, ' they said, <br>‘And the rest would fall in line.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘That would leave a mighty hole to fill, <br>The German leader's seat, <br>Who do you think would take his place<br>If I shot him in the street? '<br>‘There's only an Austrian Corporal has<br>The language, and the style, <br>But what would a Schicklgruber do? <br>Would the Germans still say ‘Heil? ' '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">17 October 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Of the Ministry of Offence, 
Had called me in for a meeting
With the Chiefs of Recompense, 
They said they needed an agent, 
Prepared to risk his all, 
‘We have the technology waiting
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