Shut up, let him give us his speech!
Re. Off.
(Smiling.) I wasn’t going into that. I don’t have to tell our lads it’s a righteous war. I only asked it like a rhetorical question this time.
Roto.
Go on, Boss, go on. You speak most as fine as a Maori chief.
Re. Off.
Now, if Britons are engaged in this war, we are engaged, for are we not the Britons of the British? We are. And lads, I will tell you, in the words of our own Prime Minister, Mr. Massey himself, I say to you that “All that we have and are is staked upon the issue of the war!”
All.
(Tremendous enthusiasm.) Hear, hear, bravo, hurrah!
(A roar of sound drowns the actual words. Varlie shouts, but has a slight sneering smile on his lips as he watches the generous enthusiasm of the others.)