Lifeboat Page #3
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get off in the middle of the ocean, can he?
- Throw him off.
- Have you gone out of your mind?
- Throw the Nazi buzzard overboard!
- That's out of the question!
- t's against the law.
- Whose law? We're on our own. We can make our own law!
Now, just a minute.
Our freighter was an enemy ship.
After all, we're at war!
Is that woman at war?
Is her baby at war?
And listen, how come
you know the lingo so well?
How come when I climbed into this
life boat you were the only one in it...
dressed up like you knew
you were going someplace?
I was going someplace.
I was going into a lifeboat.
What is this?
Are you insinuating?
- You seem pretty anxious to stand up for your friend here.
- What do you mean, my friend?
Now, children,
let's keep our shirts on.
I haven't got a shirt
or a mink coat either.
Oh, I get it.
A fellow traveler.
I thought the Comintern was dissolved.
Now, we're all sort of fellow travelers, in
a mighty small boat, on a mighty big ocean.
And the more we quarrel and criticize
and misunderstand each other...
and the smaller the boat.
The boat's too small
for me and this German.
Me, I'm perfectly willing to abide
by the decision of the majority.
That's the American way.
If we harm this man, we are guilty
of the same tactics you hate him for.
On the other hand, if we treat him
with kindness and consideration...
we might be able to convert him
to our way of thinking.
That's the, uh...
That's the Christian way.
Okay. Now, me, I'm American too.
I was born one in Chicago.
But my people are from Czechoslovakia.
Ever hear of that place?
I say let's throw him overboard
and watch him drown.
When he goes down, I'll dance a jig
like Hitler did when France went down.
Me, too.
Just for the record,
I'm an American, myself.
I'm in a kind of a spot.
My name is Schmidt,
but I changed it to Smith.
That's what I got against these guys
more than anything else.
They make me ashamed of
the name I was born with.
I got a lot of relatives in Germany.
For all I know this guy may be one of them.
I say throw him to the sharks.
No, Gus. I don't say it wouldn't be a pleasure,
mind you, but we haven't got the right.
The right?
What do you mean the right?
Well, he's a prisoner of war.
Got to be treated as such.
The way it's done is to hang on
to him till we're picked up...
then turn him over
to proper authorities.
Till such time, we represent
the authorities. That's clear, isn't it?
- You see what I mean, miss?
- don't understand any of it.
I don't understand people hurting
each other and killing each other.
I just don't understand it.
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