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It had been so long
they didn't know what to do.
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It was like handing
the village drunk a glass of water.
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What I want to point out is that
it's a tough, thankless, lonely job.
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We're trying to lick it as well as we can.
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You might as well know,
some of us get out of line occasionally.
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But remember this.
For the first time in history,
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you are asking the same generation of
soldiers to be both valorous and wise.
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- Mighty fine.
- Well said.
:38:26
I sure hope our chairman has
made notes of that speech of yours.
:38:30
I think it should be
incorporated in our report.
:38:33
Colonel, we buy every word of it, all of us.
:38:36
I don't.
:38:38
I wouldn't think of buying it. I'm surprised
at my colleagues' low sales resistance.
:38:43
Miss Frost, this attitude calls
for some explanation.
:38:46
Colonel Plummer, in your eloquent speech,
:38:49
which I'm sure you've made 50 times,
:38:51
you used the phrase "Some of our boys
may get out of line sometimes."
:38:55
That is a masterpiece of understatement.
:38:57
What are you driving at?
:38:58
In your effort to civilise this country,
our boys are becoming barbarians.
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- I explained on that tour...
- I know all about those tours.
:39:06
You put blinkers on us and make sure
we only see what you want us to see.
:39:11
Then you give us pamphlets,
statistics, a rousing speech
:39:14
and ship us back a little more
bamboozled than when we came.
:39:17
We could have learned
as much from Reader's Digest.
:39:20
- This is very embarrassing, Colonel.
- Go on, Miss Frost.
:39:24
Well, I don't like blinkers.
I look in all directions
:39:27
and when I suspect dirt's been swept
under a carpet, I turn up that carpet.
:39:31
- What carpet? What dirt?
- What dirt?
:39:34
- One day and this is filled with it.
- Please particularise.
:39:38
Gls consorting with German Fräuleins...
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Fraternisation is legal.
:39:43
...in wide-open, shameless,
black-market nightclubs.
:39:47
So we close them and our boys sneak off
to places in the Russian sector,
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or the British, or in the French,
and there's another thing.
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This is off the record.
Those places attract a lot of scum
:39:57
and we clean it up by cracking down
with a surprise raid once in a while.