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Japan has taken the plunge into the sea of war,
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matching the cunning and insane recklessness of Hitler himself,
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Japan hurls the United States into the fight between freedom and the forces of evil.
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Pearl Harbor was the target
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when waves of planes swept over her just before dawn.
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Singapore, Britain's coveted stronghold is the deepest thorn in Japan's flesh.
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It's capture would be the white man's notice to quit in the far East.
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Singapore must be held at all costs.
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Never mind Mohamed, I'll walk from here.
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I'm afraid Guthrey's head office went up last night.
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Did it indeed?
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Terrible shame...
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still.
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Still what?
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Well you know...
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until the wind.
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Sure I don't know what you mean.
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I...re...represent 'Committee for International Understanding'.
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International understanding is always good.
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Hard to believe it will be Christmas in a couple of weeks.
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Have you made your killing daddy?
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Well...
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as you know I bought the rubber.
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In fact my godowns are bulging with tons and tons of it at this time.
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No killing yet.
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They brought in this thing called a "Restriction Scheme".
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They give you coupons for which to find the amount of rubber you're allowed to sell.
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In my case...a lot less than what I have.
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What are you going to do?
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Unfortunately the small hurl is on the mainland
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don't really understand, what's going on.
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It's been easy to get them to part with their coupon.
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Eventually we've amassed enough to go forward and sell.
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So everything's alright?
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I expect it will turn out alright in the end.
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How is young Matthew doing?
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Still delirious I'm afraid.
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And that Vera Chang's been hanging around the Mayfair.
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Well...
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we'll see about that.
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- Say, is that my tie? - Yeah!
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Also your trousers. I took the liberty, you don't mind?
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Do you?
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It is my old school tie.
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No, no, no.
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It doesn't matter in the least.
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We have to win this semi-final today.
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People du la France...ce très important.
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This is Charlie. My partenaire.
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The decisive question:
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Is he drunk?
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Rough or smooth?
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You mean as we say in France, "Pile ou face".
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Pile.
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Aha! It is pile.
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We'll take the end with our back to the sun.
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Good afternoon.
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Naturally an air-raid is likely to have a rather disturbing effect on the your pet.
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So in the unlikely event of another air-raid,
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to calm them down, it's best to issue them as soon as it starts,
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with Potassium Bromide.
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Out!
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Out.
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One tablet for Pekingese and up to three tablets for a larger animal
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like our friend here.
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- Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. - No, yours.
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- No mine. - Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.
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Game, set and match.
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We are in the final...que de ça?
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Speak for yourself I'm afraid Francois.
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I have to go and join my Regiment tomorrow...up on the Slim River.
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Jap's get to cross that bridge, we are done for.
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We will postpone, until you return.
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I can't really say I'm expecting to return.
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And finally you should get them used to get seeing you in a gas-mask,
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because when your dog sees you wearing one,
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the change in your appearance and the effect on your voice,
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they very well will frighten them.
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Now...
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let us see...
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Hello?
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Oh! Yes.
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Now...now it turns they are rather disturbed...
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now you see I take it off...and there you see, they stop. Hello my dear fellow.
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Charlie was extremely...fataliste.
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He said he did not expect to return from Malaya.
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Oh.
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I suppose he was drunk.
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No. I have never seen him so sober.
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Hm.
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My lord! What have we here?
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Hm?
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- I say it's a bit thick. - What does it say?
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You've been described to me as a lover of dogs.
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I take the liberty of leaving you mine.
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Be so kind as to have him destroyed.
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Oh.
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The enclosed should cover the mortuary expenses.
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Thank you so much. He was a faithful friend.
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Blither! Didn't even give us his name.
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Le condition humaine.
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What?
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The human condition.
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His name is 'The human condition'.
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Oh.
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Oh! No! Don...don't...leave me alone.
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Oh! Why...why you putting me in a net?
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No, no, no. Don...don't pull me over-board. Don't...
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Good grief! There. Francois help me. Help me!
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Help me, Francois. It's alright, it's alright.
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It's alright. Old chap you.
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You just had a bad dream.
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Oh! Major it's you.
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Yes. Eh...Francois is heading to Penang for couple of days.
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- He came to say goodbye. - What...no!
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To see a friend of mine who can bail me. Lend me some money.
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Oh. I...see.
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- You have to drink it all. It's good for you. - Thank you.
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Ah...Miss Chiang, I...
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you know...I don't mind.
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But...eh...strictly speaking...you shouldn't really be here.
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I know Major Archer, but I can't leave until I'm sure he's feeling better.
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It's going to be okay.
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- I thought I was on a ship. - Oh!?
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The Japanese have brought out so many tanks.
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They will be * Malaya like Carter's little liver pills.
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No! No, sir. That can't be true.
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Uh...
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Erringport, my dear fellow. What can I do for you?
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Well I was wondering, sir...now that we've entered the war
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whether there might be a chance for me to move down country?
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Can't see a blessed reason why not?
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Assuming your chaps have no objection.
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What are you saying Jack?
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He can see if there is any truth in this Jap tanks nonsense.
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I don't see why he shouldn't join Heath's staff in KL.
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Good idea! We better ring side sea.
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- Clear it with Percival would you, Jack? - Right right away, sir.
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- Well thank you, sir, - Not at all. Delighted to do our allies a good turn.
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You go straight up to KL and report directly to General Heath.
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Thank you, sir I will.
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Quite envious now I see a spot of an action.
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I've been recalled to London for some reason.
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Chong tell me you are much better. Splendid!
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I suppose I am.
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How long was I...
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Ohh...you were delirious for two or three days.
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Yes I...I don't think you had any idea what was going on.
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Uhsss...what was going on?
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Oh. Quite a bit for an actual fact ah...
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For one thing we were at war with the Japanese.
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What!?
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Um...
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the night you took ill...Sunday they...they bombed Singapore.
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Bombed Singapore!?
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- Ah..bdd...hardly any damage. - Yes...but...
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And they landed three separate forces to the Siam and one in Kota Bharu.
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- What!? - Oh. No, no, no. Our chaps have it completely under control.
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Oh. It's going frightfully well.
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There's been no more bombing here and up north.
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Things could hardly be getting better.
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* The Japs have been north what they cannot choose.
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There's um...when the Prince of Wales and the Repulse were sunk this morning...
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- b...but... - Our most modern battleship, our fastest cruiser?
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Almost 2,000 men were saved.
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How many weren't saved?
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Uh.
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Best part of a thousand.
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Oh. Look here old man the...
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the doctor said when coming out of a fever like you've had,
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chap has a tendency to be a bit depressed.
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- He told me not to give you any bad news. - Hmm.
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Huh! Hmm...yeah I know...I...made a bit of a hash of it.
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Oh! Ha, ha. Whoa!
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Enter two drowned rats.
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Oh. Who was it who said we won't need an umbrella?
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Good God! What's that?
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Some blither left him tied to my gate pipe.
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Well, I've have him put down if I were you, before he give us all rabies.
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Does it have an name?
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Francois christened him, 'The human condition'.
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- His little joke. - Oh. Well...now well. You're looking a 100% better.
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Lost a bit of weight perhaps.
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Yes I...
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Good. good. I thought it was time we had a bit of a conversation
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about what's going to happen to you.
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- I don't... - No! Hang on just a jiffy.
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You will have your chance to have your say in a moment.
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- Okay. - Now...
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Ever since your poor father passed on I've...
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I've rather felt responsible for you. I hope you don't mind?
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And I've been keeping a bit of an eye on you.
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Hasn't escaped my notice that you've taken a bit of a shine did you?
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I can't say I blame you, my lad.
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Between you and I, half the young men in Singapore of your persuasion.
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But Walter, I...
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And I don't want to speak out of turn
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but I think she has a bit of a soft spot for you.
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Am I right, my dear?
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Well! That being the case....
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I think there's really only one course of action.
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And we all know of that is that is, huh?
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Huh? I've said my paltry piece.
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Well I....
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I don't know what to say. Of course I'm very fond of Joan.
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But the thought never crossed my mind. I...
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I mean....perhaps I've the wrong end of the stick.
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- Off you go, Chong! - Yes, sir.
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You don't mind if I take this wet dress off, do you daddy?
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Well, I don't mind of course. I don't.
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But there are others present...all men of the world.
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You don't mind, do you Major?
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Eh? Hmm...no...not at all. Not at all.
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I'm feeling a bit chilly.
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You don't mind if I slip into bed beside Matthew, do you daddy?
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Just till the rain stops.
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Well...I don't know huh....
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you ever heard of such a thing Major?
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Well young lady,
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what do you think your mother would say if she could see you now?
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Mr.Blackett has been kind enough to send the car for you.
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A letter from Miss Blackett.
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Dear dear Miss Chiang,
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Thank you so much for everything.
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We do appreciate how helpful you been to the Webbs
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since you were first invited to the Mayfair
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and it's been a great pleasure to see you
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giving a new home to so many of my old clothes.
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My father and I wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors.
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Thank you.
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We don't want to see you again.
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The Slim River is just north of KL, from here.
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I'll be safe as houses.
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Why can't you get a nice staff job?
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You know I won't get a paperwork alty.
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Don't you worry.
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Everything will be fine.
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Look after yourself Charlie.
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Attention! Attention!
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À tous attention!
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Les Japonais!
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Japanese! Japanese in the air! The Japanese!
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Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
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My shoe!
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Well, I must say congratulations, old fruit.
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What do you mean?
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You and Joan!
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I gather you've decided to tie the knot.
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I...huh...no. We haven't quite.
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Your father certainly said he thought it might be a good idea.
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- But I don't think any definite decision has been made. - Oh!?
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What are all these endless conversations about bridesmaids?
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- I don't know. - At least this puts the kibosh up
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on our plans to share that Chinese Philly.
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I thought I...
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It's damn expensive for the rest of us.
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I told you ages ago Monty. It's not my cup of tea. I'm not interested.
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Huh. Of course you're not if you getting hitched to old Joan.
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Ahh...do we absolutely have to go to this thing?
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Major was very insistent.
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Ahh...but I mean...Auxiliary Fire Service is not really up my street.
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Come one.
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Good...there's that...this...
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Ah!
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There you are!
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The thing is Major, I...I won't be joining you today. Yeah, I got a bit of a migraine.
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Sorry.
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Uh...next time.
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Ah..stand easy everyone. I'm just going to explain the basics to Matthew here.
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We have two types of hoses.
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This is a delivery hose which relays water to the fire.
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And this is a suction hose which draws water from an open source.
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- Is that clear? - I think so.
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The hose has two ends.
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The branch here: Don't call it a nozzle, but couplings. Male and female. Hm?
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Nigel?
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Will give us a demonstration on how the hose unreels?
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He's rather good at it, young Langfield.
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Best be prepared for the big Japanese attack
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although I can't think it will ever be needed.
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It's not as easy as it looks.
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I haven't seen Miss Chiang around these last few days.
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You wouldn't know where she might be?
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Walter had her moved out when you were ill.
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Oh.
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- Why? - He didn't say.
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He allowed to do that? Thought this is my house.
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Well it did seem a little unfair.
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She really devoted herself to looking after you when your fever was at it's height.
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- Did she? - Yes.
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Went ever to so much trouble.
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I don't really know that much about her.
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Well she says, her mother was a Russian princess.
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And her father, Chinese tea merchant.
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But it's true for all I know. Oh well...
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She was brought up in Harbin, the Manchuria. Went there myself in '37.
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Crawling with refugees from the revolution, like her parents.
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How * tea be?
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And her father set off to restore his fortunes in China...
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leaving her with some American missionaries,
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which is how she learned English.
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Then her father died apparently.
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But she somehow managed to get to Shanghai
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where there was some trouble...
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I think involving a Japanese General.
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But you...you don't know where she is now?
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I did have an address for her somewhere.
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Oh!
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Do you think you could...?
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It's just over there.
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There you go.
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I'll...eh...
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I'll wait a few minutes.
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- No need to. - Ah! Nothing else to do.
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I'm here to see Sir Shenton Thomas.
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Thank you.
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Ah! Blackett.
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Very good of you to come.
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Not at all, Governor. What can I do for you?
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- You'll have a drink I hope? - Ah! Yes. I'll take a beer.
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Do sit down.
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Oh!
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Yes.
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Cheers.
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I thought you might be the man to ask, Blackett.
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Well I....
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If the Japanese manage to establish themselves on the Malay Peninsula
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which seems highly likely I'm afraid,
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how do you think the various native communities will respond?
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I believe they'll wait to see who gains the upper hand
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and then ally themselves with the winner.
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- I see. - With the possible exception of the Chinese of course.
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They will have good a reason to hate the Japs.
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- You take a pessimistic view? - Realistic I hope.
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I'm much obliged to you Blackett.
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00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:05,400
Well I did...umm...
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want to consult you on something other.
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Ohh yes?
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Due to various circumstances I find myself
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holding a considerable amount of rubber.
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I was wondering if you could advise me on the best way of conveying it to our military.
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Shipping suddenly seems impossible to come by.
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And...I thought you could...um...
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Uhh...that is a bit of an imposer.
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I'm anxious of course to do all I can for the war effort.
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Oh. Quite.
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- Leave it with me. I'll give it some thought. - Thank you.
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No hurry.
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I'll show you out.
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How's...uh, the fighting going in the north?
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Nothing definite.
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- Military tends to keep its cards close to its chest. - Yes of course.
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Main thing is we get to the ledge before the Japanese.
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00:29:10,110 --> 00:29:11,280
The ledge?
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It's the only defensible proposition on the roads through the northern mountains.
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00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,760
If the Japanese take it,
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I don't think we'd be able to hold the Northern Territory...
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or Penang for that matter.
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00:29:33,390 --> 00:29:36,120
She wasn't in. I'll try again tomorrow.
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It's a complete catastrophe.
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You have no idea how badly things are going, François.
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00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,900
So...because of Brooke-Popham's hopeless, hopeless indecision,
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the Japanese, they reached the ledge way before we did.
365
00:30:09,170 --> 00:30:13,760
And then General Murray-Lyon, he radios it from Jitra for permission to retreat.
366
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General Heath...he doesn't realize how serious the situation was.
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And he refuses permission.
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Reinforcements were sent to Jitra
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just as General Heath reviews the situation,
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come to his senses and orders the retreat.
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Uh, the soldiers running away collide with the soldiers coming to reinforce them, so...
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Umm...meurtre.
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I'm afraid it's a perfect illustration of what I call:
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Ehrendorf's Second Law.
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Which is?
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In human affairs things tend inevitably to go wrong.
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I see.
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00:30:58,380 --> 00:30:59,125
Still...
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at least I got away from Joan Blackett.
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00:31:04,423 --> 00:31:05,400
Oh! Yes.
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I understand now she's engaged to Mr.Webb.
382
00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:13,909
- She is? - So I understand.
383
00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:23,960
You alright?
384
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:26,240
Hmm?
385
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:29,800
What's that revolver doing?
386
00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:31,440
Oh.
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00:31:31,860 --> 00:31:32,880
It's just a paper-weight.
388
00:31:36,630 --> 00:31:37,380
Oh!
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00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,960
If you marry someone really beautiful,
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do you think that's an advantage...
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00:31:45,690 --> 00:31:46,480
in the long run?
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00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:49,530
Well I'm hardly the...
393
00:31:49,620 --> 00:31:51,500
Monty was round here yesterday said,
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all they talk about their house now, is bridesmaids and who wants to...
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00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,360
make the wedding cake.
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00:31:58,300 --> 00:31:59,040
I see.
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00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,160
- I haven't even asked her to marry me, have it? - Certainly not in my presence.
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00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,705
You've never have been married. Have you, Major?
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00:32:13,650 --> 00:32:14,600
Well...ah...
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00:32:16,690 --> 00:32:18,120
I suppose not.
401
00:32:19,650 --> 00:32:22,120
Can't say I haven't regretted it sometimes.
402
00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:24,160
Really?
403
00:32:26,390 --> 00:32:30,240
And a young man like you probably should be thinking about getting married.
404
00:32:30,650 --> 00:32:32,160
Yes. That's what I've been thinking.
405
00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:34,600
Ahh! I haven't seen her for days.
406
00:32:34,690 --> 00:32:36,880
I suppose I should go round there and ask her properly.
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00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,320
Make a...formal proposal.
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00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,760
I think you should. Or at any rate...
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00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:47,008
let the Blackett's know one way or the other.
410
00:33:49,550 --> 00:33:51,280
Hello my boy!
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00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:52,880
* Edol said you wanted a word.
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00:33:54,020 --> 00:33:56,200
Afraid I can only spare you a few minutes.
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00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:58,660
As you know it's * today. Fire away.
414
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:00,360
Well...
415
00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:02,040
I...uh...
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00:34:05,845 --> 00:34:06,600
Yes...?
417
00:34:07,380 --> 00:34:08,120
I...uh...
418
00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:13,300
I...uh...
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00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,560
I wanted to come back to this policy of re-planting mature rubber trees.
420
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,130
I mean I understand about the excess profits tax but,
421
00:34:26,220 --> 00:34:30,650
surely with the war effort and everything, isn't it a matter of principle?
422
00:34:30,740 --> 00:34:35,120
We need to plan these new high yielding trees. It's what all our competitors are doing.
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00:34:35,620 --> 00:34:38,920
We fall behind now, in five years the Dutch will have put us out of business.
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00:34:39,010 --> 00:34:40,560
Walter, with the Japs on our doorstep
425
00:34:40,650 --> 00:34:43,600
surely we should be producing every scrap of rubber we can.
426
00:34:43,850 --> 00:34:47,900
Supposing we did. And as it happens I'll go down as bulging with rubber right now.
427
00:34:47,990 --> 00:34:51,000
So...perhaps you could tell me how you propose to ship it?
428
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:53,240
Hmm?
429
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,310
Yes. Well I really must run. Duty calls.
430
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,960
Getting on alright with Joan I hope.
431
00:35:00,290 --> 00:35:02,250
Uh...umm...that's that's what I wanted to...
432
00:35:02,340 --> 00:35:06,640
Come to dinner this evening. And bring the Major. No need to dress. Totally informal.
433
00:35:17,450 --> 00:35:20,120
I'm looking for Miss Vera Chiang. She left an address.
434
00:35:20,220 --> 00:35:22,800
- Where can I find her? - No. Sorry. No, sir.
435
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,920
- Excuse me. Is this Vera Chiang's address? - I think she has moved.
436
00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:55,150
Excuse me? Do you know this address? - Sorry.
437
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:17,440
Come.
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00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,280
Thought I might find you here, daddy.
439
00:37:22,890 --> 00:37:25,800
You weren't joking when you said you bought a lot of rubber.
440
00:37:26,380 --> 00:37:27,120
Hmm.
441
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:31,400
The Governor's going to put his mind to having me help get rid of it.
442
00:37:31,490 --> 00:37:32,523
Well that's good.
443
00:37:33,625 --> 00:37:34,810
Uh, I felt like saying,
444
00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:37,120
I've spent decades building up this business.
445
00:37:37,790 --> 00:37:40,100
How can your staff shards have been so incompetent
446
00:37:40,190 --> 00:37:44,480
as to let the Japanese sink your ships and land with virtually no opposition?
447
00:37:44,570 --> 00:37:46,200
I'm sure they will sort something out.
448
00:37:46,290 --> 00:37:49,360
Yes, so we need this marriage to happen as soon as possible.
449
00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:52,040
You know I was talking to him this afternoon.
450
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,760
I don't think he has any idea of the realities we have to deal with.
451
00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:01,680
I don't want him pulling against me.
452
00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:08,360
So you're going to have to take him in hand...and be very firm.
453
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,880
I sometimes want to snatch those glasses off his nose.
454
00:38:12,970 --> 00:38:15,480
Give them a good polish. Put them back on and say,
455
00:38:15,570 --> 00:38:16,880
"Can you at least see me properly now"?
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00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,440
I don't feel I can ask a time.
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00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,120
Well...he's coming to dinner this evening.
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00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,600
I have a feeling, he's finally going to speak up.
459
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,940
- Ah! Francois. - Hmm.
460
00:38:42,340 --> 00:38:43,080
You alright?
461
00:38:44,130 --> 00:38:46,120
This? This is nothing. Uh...
462
00:38:47,050 --> 00:38:50,280
- I had to bring someone out from the burning building. - Good heavens!
463
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,760
- You were in the thick of it then? - Aha. Yes. You could say so.
464
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,680
But the Major tells me you have been over the Blackett's house to propose the marriage?
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00:38:58,770 --> 00:39:00,440
Uh...well yes.
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00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,240
Sh..she wasn't in.
467
00:39:03,340 --> 00:39:04,080
Hmm.
468
00:39:04,170 --> 00:39:10,200
So...of course she is a nice Elsie English girl. Delicious.
469
00:39:10,330 --> 00:39:12,800
So you weren't able to make your proposal?
470
00:39:12,970 --> 00:39:13,720
No.
471
00:39:14,090 --> 00:39:16,320
Going to have to try sometime this evening.
472
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:21,560
Oh! Good. So dîner at Blackett will be less dull than usual.
473
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,560
- Cheers. - Uh...cheers.
474
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,880
You see it was necessary to pick up the beam with the bare hands.
475
00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:35,040
Or the poor fellow would not have been able to escape.
476
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,400
I'm so worried about my brother Charlie.
477
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,200
He only went up country three days ago. We've heard nothing from him.
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00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:42,440
He will be alright my dear.
479
00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:45,640
He never was in much of a want to be in touch.
480
00:39:45,730 --> 00:39:49,680
I can't help but worry, Walter. He is my brother after all.
481
00:39:51,780 --> 00:39:53,920
- Cheers. - Cheers.
482
00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:55,160
*
483
00:39:56,380 --> 00:39:57,280
Excuse us.
484
00:40:08,770 --> 00:40:10,680
- Long time no see. - Yes.
485
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,400
You..a...you look beautiful.
486
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,520
Poor Monty is in a terrible state.
487
00:40:18,810 --> 00:40:21,480
They keep trying to call him up for the FMS volunteers.
488
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:25,280
He has told them over and over: He can't go. He's doing essential war work.
489
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,800
And I mean, if people are forcing him to join,
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00:40:27,890 --> 00:40:29,840
how can you call yourself a volunteer?
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00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:31,560
Good lord!
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00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,605
I do believe Francois is wearing new clothes.
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00:40:34,695 --> 00:40:35,435
Well...yes.
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00:40:36,290 --> 00:40:37,520
You never guess what they're trying to do.
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00:40:37,630 --> 00:40:40,120
- Yes, I... - Shove me into the bloody volunteers!
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00:40:40,210 --> 00:40:43,440
- Joan was just... - No idea how sticky that being. And Penang!?
497
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:45,580
When you could make more of a mess of things if they try.
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00:40:45,670 --> 00:40:47,250
I'm sure things are not as bad as they seem,
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00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:49,720
now shall we go through and eat? Monty. Come.
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00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,760
If we could all go through.
501
00:40:52,990 --> 00:40:57,480
The only means I could find to travel the final 80 kilometers
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00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,440
to Kuala Lumpur was no truck carrying rubber.
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00:41:01,890 --> 00:41:03,800
Maybe one of your drivers?
504
00:41:03,910 --> 00:41:08,240
And the Chinese driver and I sit on a plank across the cab.
505
00:41:08,940 --> 00:41:10,480
The engine between us,
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00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,520
every time he accelerate,
507
00:41:12,890 --> 00:41:15,320
the flash of flame from the engine!
508
00:41:15,410 --> 00:41:18,300
Oh, there was no door on my side.
509
00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:22,840
So when he turns...aaa...I am in danger to fall out in to the jungle!
510
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:30,080
The radiator is splashing the boiling water every...
511
00:41:30,170 --> 00:41:32,280
- Monty tells me... - Hmm?
512
00:41:33,690 --> 00:41:36,320
He says there's been a lot of discussion lately about Joan's wedding.
513
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:40,640
Sorry if this sounds a bit odd.
514
00:41:40,730 --> 00:41:42,680
It seem to me all of a sudden this was the kind of evening
515
00:41:42,770 --> 00:41:45,640
when we ought to be honest and express about our inner most feelings.
516
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,630
It's strange, a lot of you sitting at this table knew my father
517
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:55,295
much better than I did...and I think of you know,
518
00:41:55,385 --> 00:41:58,400
I hope you don't mind as...my closest friends.
519
00:42:00,230 --> 00:42:01,520
So...I just wanted to say,
520
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,320
and I assure you I really mean it.
521
00:42:09,390 --> 00:42:11,840
I should have spoken much soon.
522
00:42:12,940 --> 00:42:16,200
Of course...to avoid any misunderstanding.
523
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,350
I'm very very fond...
524
00:42:21,870 --> 00:42:22,620
of Joan.
525
00:42:23,750 --> 00:42:25,200
But...I don't...
526
00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:29,080
but I don't really want to marry her.
527
00:42:42,290 --> 00:42:43,680
I think that's everything.
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