Michael Goodliffe: Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache, Buenos Aires
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Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : [McCall is telephoning the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires to try to spread a rumour] An emergency has arisen over the 'Graf Spee'.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : Careful, McCall - security.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : I know, sir, but this is most urgent. I have just heard by Admiralty code...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : This isn't a scrambler, you know.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : ...that two of our capital ships...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : Are you MAD, McCall? I'm going to hang up!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : Sir, I must insist - in this case urgency overrides security.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : 'Urgency overrides security?' Well, well, well, go on, go on.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : Both these capital ships will be calling in the next few hours at Bahia...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : I told you before, this is not a scrambler!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : ...at Bahia Blanca to refuel.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : MCCALL!
Mr. Millington Drake - British Minister, Montevideo : [Groans] Oh...
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : They'll be down to their last drop when they arrive.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : Stop it, stop it!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : They... they've steamed at full speed for the Plate for obvious reasons...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : Fellow's raving mad.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : They request that we arrange for 2,000 tons of fuel oil...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : Really McCall, YOU MUST STOP!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : ...of fuel oil to be available in tankers as from tonight.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice) : [Silence, as Ambassador realises what McCall is doing] Oh... very well, McCall. Yes, we got your message.
[Hangs up]
Ray Martin : The afternoon papers'll be out soon. Knowing how leaky the telephone cables are between here and Buenos Aires, I shall expect to see the headlines screaming that half the British fleet are off Punta del Este.
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Commodore Harwood-H.M.S. Ajax : And talking of golf, look at my clubs.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : Are those clubs?
Commodore Harwood-H.M.S. Ajax : Toothpicks. That's all they are now. One shell took all their heads off. Good shooting, eh? On a fairground, it would have won a teddy bear.
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Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires : Suppose the Graf Spee does make a break for Buenos Aires. Will you try stop her?
Commodore Harwood-H.M.S. Ajax : McCall, I was never much good on a horse, but I know the drill. Don't take your fences until you have to.
