Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
[McCall is telephoning the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires to try to spread a rumour]
An emergency has arisen over the 'Graf Spee'.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
Careful, McCall - security.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
I know, sir, but this is most urgent. I have just heard by Admiralty code...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
This isn't a scrambler, you know.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
...that two of our capital ships...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
Are you MAD, McCall? I'm going to hang up!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
Sir, I must insist - in this case urgency overrides security.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
'Urgency overrides security?' Well, well, well, go on, go on.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
Both these capital ships will be calling in the next few hours at Bahia...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
I told you before, this is not a scrambler!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
...at Bahia Blanca to refuel.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
MCCALL!
Mr. Millington Drake - British Minister, Montevideo:
[Groans]
Oh...
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
They'll be down to their last drop when they arrive.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
Stop it, stop it!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
They... they've steamed at full speed for the Plate for obvious reasons...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
Fellow's raving mad.
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
They request that we arrange for 2,000 tons of fuel oil...
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
Really McCall, YOU MUST STOP!
Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires:
...of fuel oil to be available in tankers as from tonight.
British Ambassador in Buenos Aires (Voice):
[Silence, as Ambassador realises what McCall is doing]
Oh... very well, McCall. Yes, we got your message.
[Hangs up]

Ray Martin:
The afternoon papers'll be out soon. Knowing how leaky the telephone cables are between here and Buenos Aires, I shall expect to see the headlines screaming that half the British fleet are off Punta del Este.
Riportata da il 05/03/2025 alle ore 08:37

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