1:46:06
Already safely on board the Krassin...
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were Zappi, Mariano,
and the Russian airmen.
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They were all safe.
1:46:15
And you'd been safe for two weeks, General.
1:46:19
Now, the charges are...
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failure to exercise command...
1:46:25
desertion, and cowardice.
1:46:28
What's the verdict?
1:46:34
Samoilovich?
1:46:36
We judge a man by his actions...
1:46:39
and action by its results.
1:46:42
He left his men and went to Kingsbay...
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where he radioed to me.
1:46:47
The result of his radio call to me...
1:46:50
was the rescue of the survivors.
1:46:53
The action, therefore, was correct.
1:46:56
Now, how would you describe
Chuknowski's action?
1:46:59
Heroic.
1:47:02
A second-in-command
is allowed to be heroic.
1:47:05
The rank and file are required to be heroic.
1:47:08
But their leader
has no right to risk the lives of his men...
1:47:13
by personal acts of heroism.
1:47:15
A leader must be correct.
1:47:17
Then the ideal leader would be a computer.
1:47:19
Samoilovich, your verdict.
1:47:21
In our opinion,
we have no right to judge General Nobile.
1:47:26
Just too bad.
1:47:27
They don't want to take any part in the jury.
1:47:30
But the others have to judge.
1:47:34
Guilty.
1:47:37
Guilty.
1:47:39
- Guilty.
- Guilty.
1:47:41
The jury is unanimous.
1:47:43
But I discount the verdict.
1:47:45
What? Why do you discount the verdict?
1:47:49
Take yourself, for instance, Captain Zappi.
1:47:51
You are clearly an officer
of great initiative...
1:47:54
and perhaps you should have led
an expedition of your own.
1:47:56
Thank you.
1:47:57
But as a second-in-command...