The 39 Steps Page #3

the assassination was about to trigger

a war of a magnitude never seen before.

The Germans planned to destroy

the vastly superior British Navy,

leaving them free

to invade this country.

My head swam with

the enormity of it.

Stop!

GUNFIRE GUNFIRE Stop! Stop!

Stay where you are, Mr Hannay.

Good Lord! Are you all right?

- I am so sorry.

- What are you apologising for?

He rolled out in front of you.

Are you the Liberal spokesman?

I beg your pardon?

Are you Tommy Twisdon?

Yes, I am.

- I'm Harry Sinclair.

- This is my sister Victoria.

The hotel said you left an hour ago.

Where have you been?

Our Uncle, Sir George Sinclair.

Tommy Twisdon.

Pleased to meet you, Mr Twisdon.

Secretary to the National

Committee of Defence...

Sorry.

There's...

- a twig in your...

- Mr Twisdon took a bit of a tumble.

Could you point me to a telephone?

I need to contact in London.

I'm sorry, we've no time for that.

You better get in there fast,

before there's a mutiny.

This way, please.

- Ladies and Gentlemen...

- Miss Sinclair, please...

- Thank you Professor Fisher.

- it gives me great pleasure

to welcome your prospective

Parliamentary candidate

in the Dungarven by-election,

Harry Sinclair.

Gentlemen.

- I am delighted...

- Speak up, laddie!

- What?

- Speak up!

Right!

Sorry.

I am delighted

to stand before you this afternoon,

as your perspective...

parliamentary candidate...

In fact I think

the whole arms race with Germany

has been a total waste of revenue.

Our good friends, the Germans,

are not the enemy.

But for the Tories

we would be,

working side by side with the Germans,

in peace.

Thank you, Harry.

Your prospective Liberal candidate,

Mr Harry Sinclair.

- I haven't finished.

- Best leave them wanting more, son.

And now the moment

you've all been waiting for,

our honourable guest speaker

of whom Prime Minister Asquith said,

"If you want to get the job done,

"get Twisdon. " Mr Tommy Twisdon.

You know what's wrong

with this great nation?

Smugness and complacency.

You think because Great Britain has

the largest overseas Empire,

because she does indeed rule the waves,

that you're somehow impregnable?

I do not believe you

should be so sanguine,

in your friendships with Germany.

The assassination of

the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

proves that tensions between countries

and alliances run dangerously high.

- That's Europe.

- What's that got to do with us?

You wouldn't be saying that if foreign

boots were marching down your high street,

- would you?

- Surely, sir,

- surely that's warmongering?

- No, sir, it is a warning.

Where do you stand on women,

Mr Twisdon?

What?

Where do you stand on women?

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