MINISTER OF WAR

You are the support of the army. We go to the dogs, if you leave us.


PRIME MINISTER

[_Sitting at the desk._

So? "The King suggests to the Foreign Office that these facts be put
before our Ambassadors abroad and, to pacify the public mind, be given
at once to the newspapers." He suggests. So do I suggest--something
different.


CHIEF OF STAFF

[_In front of the map again._

Three hundred thousand men here, turning the flank of a possible army
marching north with that ridge of mountains as a cover--If we can only
have the chance!


PRIME MINISTER

[_Studying the message, suddenly._

By Heaven! If--