Loveday.
Oh, don’t be! You will only have a few minutes this time: just to make a good impression. If you do that then the Minister may give you a serious interview later.
Gordon.
I’m wretchedly nervous. Is he, is he short with people?
Loveday.
He likes people to be short with him! He is dreadfully bored by long-winded cranks of course.
Gordon.
I say, what do you think? (Pulls out some papers from his pocket.) I thought of wording Clause 29 of the suggested constitution as follows: “The Super-Parliament is to have the power of prohibiting the manufacture of anything which in its opinion constitutes a menace to the Peace of the world: with power to inflict the death penalty on all concerned in any infringement of its prohibition in any country.”
Loveday.
Yes. I think that is good. Coupled with the other clauses that makes it safer.