We Will Know Them By Gordon McKerry

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A white feather. imprisonment and force-feeding: such could be the fate of the 'conchy ' in the First World War.  Molly is determined to save her young man and others like him from these humiliations and finds herself caught up in a courageous, pioneer pacifist movement whose campaigners included Bertrand Russell and Sylvia Pankhurst.  Teddy: Richard Derrington Molly: Francesca Annis Lydia: Fiona Walker Joan: Caroline Mortimer Catherine: Pauline Letts Molly's mother: Hilda Kriseman Molly's father: Michael Spice Mr Street/Mr Tennant: Sia´n Probert Clifford Allen: David McAlister Inspector Cole/Constable: Ronald Herdman Landlord/Triburialchairman: Alexader John Army captain: Andrew Secombe Policeman/Sergent: John Webb Major/MP: Roger Hammond Librarian: Spencer Banks Voice of the press: Danny Schiller Other parts played by: Diana Bishop; Judy Franklin; John Livesey and Theresa Streatfield  Directed by Penny Gold Saturday-Night Theatre: Sat 21st Nov 1981 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM  Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

Transcript

00:00:00Now on Radio 4, Saturday Night Theatre.

00:00:13We Will Know Them by Gordon Maccarrow.

00:00:18With Francesca Anis as Molly and Richard Derrington as Teddy.

00:00:23G'en a conchie, meet a conchie, coming through the clink.

00:00:33G'en a conchie, greet a conchie, should a conchie wink.

00:00:53The park can be very beautiful when the avenues of trees mask the prison.

00:01:13It can be very verdant and manicured and grand.

00:01:17But the coming of the frosts and the winter mists always paints a different picture.

00:01:21I think I've lost all count of the times I've idled down these paths.

00:01:27Or marked my coat on the benches.

00:01:30Sitting.

00:01:32Waiting.

00:01:34Waiting for the tower clock near the railway to tell me the hour when I could walk to the prison gates.

00:01:40Show my visiting permit and pray God this time be granted admission.

00:01:45Be admitted inside those gates.

00:01:48To see him.

00:01:51Teddy.

00:01:58G'en a conchie, meet a conchie, coming through the clink.

00:02:06G'en a conchie, greet a conchie, should a conchie wink.

00:02:11Ilk a conchie, hey, a comrade.

00:02:17Nere one, hey, I.

00:02:20But all the comrades smile at me.

00:02:24Coming on the sly.

00:02:29Teddy.

00:02:30G'en a conchie, conchie, conchie, conchie, conchie, conchie, conchie.

00:02:38Eddie!

00:02:40Molly, over here.

00:02:43Teddy, I thought I'd lost you.

00:02:44Where did you get to?

00:02:45You got separated by those dreadful people outside.

00:02:48Oh, don't mind them.

00:02:48They didn't pull your hair.

00:02:50It's mostly our people inside, though.

00:02:52There are more of us than I thought.

00:02:54It's difficult to see with everybody packing in, sir.

00:02:56Which is Clifford Allen?

00:02:58Down there, by the bench.

00:03:00Silence!

00:03:01Silence!

00:03:03Fantasy, military service tribunal.

00:03:06First claimant to be heard on this day, the 14th of March, 1916.

00:03:11Allen!

00:03:13Clifford!

00:03:14Are we ready now?

00:03:16Mr. Allen, will you stand?

00:03:22This is not some circus sideshow.

00:03:25It is a tribunal on behalf of His Majesty's Government and Armed Forces.

00:03:30I will have silence throughout.

00:03:34Right then, Mr. Allen.

00:03:36You may now present your grounds of claim for exemption from military service.

00:03:43Mr. Chairman,

00:03:44I am a socialist,

00:03:47and so hold in all sincerity

00:03:49that the life and personality of every man is sacred.

00:03:53And that there is something of divinity in every human being,

00:03:57irrespective, sir,

00:03:59of the nation to which he belongs.

00:04:02To me,

00:04:04war is murder.

00:04:05I never have,

00:04:07and never will,

00:04:07shirk my bounded duty to serve my fellow men.

00:04:11But at present,

00:04:11I believe I can best render such service

00:04:13by striving to advance the cause of peace.

00:04:16You are aware that many socialists have gone to war?

00:04:21Yes.

00:04:22But I am justified in interpreting my socialist faith

00:04:25according to my own judgment.

00:04:27After all,

00:04:28the same might be said of the Christians

00:04:30who believe the churches have abandoned the teachings of Jesus Christ.

00:04:33Do you not belong to any religious sect?

00:04:35No.

00:04:36Do you belong to any organization?

00:04:38Yes.

00:04:39The No Conscription Fellowship.

00:04:42Of which you are the chairman?

00:04:45Yes.

00:04:46Then you make your application on moral grounds.

00:04:48Yes,

00:04:49I have already said that.

00:04:50Is it right,

00:04:51on moral grounds,

00:04:53to allow a foreign foe to invade Britain?

00:04:55I do not desire to see this country occupied by Germans,

00:05:00but if anyone shared my views,

00:05:02there would be no invasion.

00:05:04No civilized country would think of attacking a mutter.

00:05:06Mr. Chairman,

00:05:07we have had enough of this.

00:05:08The case should be stopped.

00:05:09The military representative is anticipatory.

00:05:12We are obliged to hear the applicant.

00:05:16Continue.

00:05:17In case the tribunal decides

00:05:19that I have no conscientious objection,

00:05:22I feel it's only honorable

00:05:23that I should make it quite clear

00:05:25that even then

00:05:26I must remain resolute in my decision.

00:05:30The tribunal disallows your clan...

00:05:33Shave!

00:05:36Can you give me

00:05:39any reason for your decision?

00:05:42Your application is disallowed,

00:05:44that is all.

00:05:45Shave!

00:05:46I have warned these people before!

00:05:50Clear the gallery!

00:05:52A bit of a hero,

00:05:54No, are you not,

00:05:55Mr. Allen?

00:06:02Gabby!

00:06:03Taxi?

00:06:04Gabby, are you mad?

00:06:06Gullet, please.

00:06:08The taxi to...

00:06:09Gullet, you are mad.

00:06:10Come on, get in.

00:06:11But this is...

00:06:12Get in!

00:06:12I feel wonderful.

00:06:20This is going to cost a fortune.

00:06:21I feel so inspired now.

00:06:23He's made up my mind for me.

00:06:24Wasn't he good?

00:06:25Yes.

00:06:27He was very good.

00:06:28The way he stood up to them.

00:06:29And he was so eloquent.

00:06:31Lord, how he got them going.

00:06:32Did you hear those cheers from the gallery?

00:06:34We were in the gallery.

00:06:35And the way he presented his claim.

00:06:37Teddy, he lost his claim.

00:06:39Of course he lost his claim,

00:06:40but that was not the point of the exercise.

00:06:42Then would you mind telling me what it was?

00:06:44The demonstration of a principle,

00:06:46you know that?

00:06:47The war is wrong and should not be fought.

00:06:50Perhaps.

00:06:51A woman gave him a white feather.

00:06:56They called him names.

00:06:59Traitor.

00:07:00Sticks and stones.

00:07:02What will happen to him now?

00:07:04More names.

00:07:05And the choice of joining the army or going to prison.

00:07:08But it isn't really a choice for him.

00:07:11Poor man.

00:07:12Why?

00:07:15I don't envy him.

00:07:16I do.

00:07:17Teddy.

00:07:18Well, I do.

00:07:19He's pointing the way.

00:07:21But...

00:07:21Sometimes, Molly,

00:07:23you just don't grasp what's going on.

00:07:25More than you think.

00:07:27You don't seem to understand me.

00:07:29Oh, Teddy, I do want to.

00:07:32I do so want to, but...

00:07:34But what?

00:07:35I'm scared.

00:07:38When will I see you?

00:07:40Soon.

00:07:42I love you.

00:07:43Love me?

00:07:45I do.

00:07:47But I need to know more.

00:07:49Stay by me.

00:07:50For God's sake, tell me how.

00:08:00We will know them.

00:08:03They're cunning, hypocritical rascals

00:08:06who would do anything rather than serve the land

00:08:08which has given them birth and protection.

00:08:10And we can easily picture them with their sloping foreheads and receding chins.

00:08:16With sorrow and shame, we admit that they are to be found nowhere else in Europe than in England.

00:08:21The duty of the tribunals is plain.

00:08:24They must be rigid in their policy of inclusion.

00:08:28They must let none escape who is capable of performing an enforced service.

00:08:32To those who stay behind to indulge the whim called conscientious objection, we should show no mercy.

00:08:41Thank you, Janet.

00:08:46And how was your day today, Molly?

00:08:48Thank you, Janet.

00:08:50That will be all.

00:08:51Busy, was it?

00:08:52The library full?

00:08:54Yes, it was a busy day.

00:08:56That will be all, Janet.

00:08:58What is it, girl?

00:09:00Will you tell Mr. Hibbert, madam?

00:09:02Yes, I will tell him, Janet.

00:09:04Now, run along.

00:09:09Tell me what?

00:09:10What does she mean?

00:09:12She's given her notice, dear.

00:09:13A notice?

00:09:15What did the devil fall?

00:09:16Apparently that young man of hers has persuaded her to go and make shells or something.

00:09:21Oh, munitions.

00:09:22Oh, damn the man.

00:09:24Why?

00:09:25That's dangerous work.

00:09:26Those people are always blowing themselves up.

00:09:29It's the pay, Father.

00:09:30It's very good.

00:09:32Damn the money.

00:09:32She did all right here.

00:09:33And she had a roof over her head.

00:09:36Well, if that's how she shows her loyalty and gratitude, she can pack her bags and go tomorrow.

00:09:40She's given a week's notice, dear.

00:09:42I don't want her in the house.

00:09:43You are being rather harsh.

00:09:45If I was being harsh, I'd kick her out tonight and let her beg charity from that high-handed fellow of hers.

00:09:50Give her until the end of the week, Father.

00:09:52She's worked very hard for us.

00:09:54I know she has.

00:09:55That's the infuriating part.

00:09:57Just when your father's finding himself in a financial position to afford the better class of servant,

00:10:01and that damn breed of girl decides it's all beneath their dignity.

00:10:04Father, it's this very war that takes away the serving girls.

00:10:08It's also letting you make enough money to afford the better ones, if they were still available.

00:10:12Don't you begrudge your father his success, my girl.

00:10:15Mary, we are fighting the Germans to protect all that this country holds dear.

00:10:21Freedom.

00:10:22Freedom for your father to work hard for his family.

00:10:25Freedom for servant girls to choose a different life for themselves.

00:10:29What's so wrong with being a serving girl, I'd like to know?

00:10:32How is your mother going to manage?

00:10:35It's not a very big house, Father.

00:10:37Don't you mock at me, you ungrateful child.

00:10:39This house is damn big for a man in my position.

00:10:42Father, I was only saying...

00:10:43How many people eat as well as we do?

00:10:45How many sit to a table like this?

00:10:46Now, you two don't quarrel.

00:10:49We shall just have to get by.

00:10:55The Cheshants at 53 have lost their elder boy.

00:10:59I saw it in the paper.

00:11:00Poor dears.

00:11:02And she's so pretty.

00:11:03Who?

00:11:04Mrs. Cheshant.

00:11:05Oh.

00:11:05I think you ought to know I haven't been to the library today.

00:11:13What did she say?

00:11:14She said she hasn't been to the library today.

00:11:17Why the devil not?

00:11:18I saw someone.

00:11:19Who, dear?

00:11:20You wouldn't know him.

00:11:22Him?

00:11:24Yes.

00:11:25A man, Mother.

00:11:27Male.

00:11:28You were without a chaperone.

00:11:30Why didn't you tell us you had a gentleman friend?

00:11:33Because you wouldn't like him.

00:11:34Oh.

00:11:36How long have you known him?

00:11:38Since just after the war began.

00:11:40But that's over 18 months ago.

00:11:43Why didn't you bring him home to meet us?

00:11:45Because we met at a woman's suffrage meeting.

00:11:48Oh.

00:11:48Rum sort of fellow.

00:11:49He must be consorting with a horde of hysterical females.

00:11:52If the girl likes him, let him be.

00:11:54We haven't even met him yet.

00:11:56She's known him for long enough.

00:11:57If we were going to be allowed to meet him,

00:11:59we'd have done so months before.

00:12:00It's all too secret to my mind.

00:12:02He's probably in the army.

00:12:03They don't get much leave at the moment.

00:12:06He's not in the army.

00:12:08Oh.

00:12:09Well, reserve occupations are vital too.

00:12:13They're kept pretty busy, I'm told.

00:12:14I know why she hasn't brought him home.

00:12:16She hasn't brought him home.

00:12:18Because he's a bloody scrimshanker.

00:12:20My dear, that is not a word for the table.

00:12:22That's him, isn't it?

00:12:24He took me today to see a tribunal hearing.

00:12:27Did you say a tribunal?

00:12:28A tribunal?

00:12:30Alfred, he's a conchie.

00:12:32Her young man is a conchie.

00:12:35I think we've heard enough.

00:12:36Why does everyone hate conscientious objectives?

00:12:39At least they're doing something they believe in,

00:12:41even if it does send them to prison.

00:12:43I said enough.

00:12:44You're prepared to condemn people like Teddy out of hand,

00:12:47but what do you believe in?

00:12:48I mean, you're filled with hate.

00:12:49Molly, leave the table.

00:12:51You hate the Germans, you hate the conchies,

00:12:53but what do you believe in?

00:12:54See what you've done now?

00:12:55You've made your mother cry.

00:12:57Are you satisfied?

00:12:58Get out of this room.

00:13:00Go.

00:13:03I had done it.

00:13:06I'd told them.

00:13:08At least I tried to.

00:13:11I knew that I should have to someday soon

00:13:13if I was to muster the support that Teddy seemed to so need of me.

00:13:17It was not defiance that drove me.

00:13:20I hadn't wanted to hurt them.

00:13:21And it was fear that tied my tongue

00:13:24and made me grind my teeth

00:13:26as I walked purposefully as I could from that room.

00:13:31Teddy.

00:13:43Solly, over here.

00:13:45Teddy.

00:13:47Here.

00:13:51It's a strange place to meet, isn't it?

00:13:54What's so wrong with a bandstand in the park, may I ask?

00:13:57Aren't those soldiers playing?

00:13:59They may be soon.

00:14:00It's the band from some brewery.

00:14:02Unless keeping the nation desensitised with alcohol

00:14:05is considered to be useful labour for the war effort.

00:14:08They look like soldiers in those uniforms.

00:14:10They sound like soldiers.

00:14:13Rousy, isn't it?

00:14:14A handful of red-nosed brewers resplendent in blue and gold

00:14:17entertaining a handful of Londoners with nothing better to do

00:14:20but sit in deck chairs and applaud politely with gloved hands.

00:14:24We should move away from here before they start asking for requests.

00:14:28I'd ask for Deutschland uber Alice.

00:14:31And those polite gloved hands would probably beat you to death.

00:14:35At least you'd get some reaction from them.

00:14:37Come on, let's walk.

00:14:38Give me your hand.

00:14:44Why?

00:14:45Because I want to hold it.

00:14:46Not in the park, Teddy.

00:14:48Yes, in the park, Molly.

00:14:51There.

00:14:52What's so shocking about that?

00:14:55I told Mother and Father about you.

00:14:58And about us.

00:15:00What did they say?

00:15:01They asked who the chaperone was.

00:15:04There's something else I told Mother and Father.

00:15:12I told them you were a conscientious objector.

00:15:16All they wanted was a chaperone.

00:15:19There's your suit of armor.

00:15:21There's your front-line trench to protect your patriotic sensibilities.

00:15:25I stuck out for you.

00:15:26I don't need apologists where people like your parents are concerned.

00:15:30That's unfair.

00:15:30Is it?

00:15:31I found a copy of the Daily Mail today.

00:15:35Some jingo left it behind on the bus.

00:15:38Look at it.

00:15:39Just look at it.

00:15:41Can't be healthy for them to be so permanently eaten up with insane hatred.

00:15:45I love my parents.

00:15:47Last night I hurt them and I hated doing it.

00:15:49Then why bother at all?

00:15:51You needn't have told them.

00:15:51Teddy, don't tear me up inside more than you're doing already.

00:15:54I needed to speak to someone.

00:15:56To share it.

00:15:56To test the reaction.

00:15:58And?

00:16:01They've forbidden me to see you again.

00:16:03Then you best act like the dutiful daughter you profess to be.

00:16:06I'm my own woman.

00:16:08Don't forget, I found my cause long before this war came along and gave you yours.

00:16:14Teddy, why are we talking like this?

00:16:19Maybe because of this.

00:16:20What is it?

00:16:21Have a look.

00:16:26Your call-up.

00:16:30When did it come?

00:16:31This morning.

00:16:33What happens now?

00:16:35Now it starts.

00:16:37The tribunals must let none escape who is capable of performing an enforced service.

00:16:48We are at war with the greatest military power the world has seen.

00:16:52And it is our business to crush that power.

00:16:55To those who stay behind to indulge the whim called conscientious objection,

00:17:01we will show no mercy.

00:17:07May we get on now, Mr. Chairman?

00:17:09I did wish to linger unduly over cases this afternoon.

00:17:13Well, yes, Major.

00:17:14Please be patient.

00:17:16Well then, Usher, instruct the applicant to approach us.

00:17:20The applicant, Edward Timothy Mayhew, will now approach the board of tribunal.

00:17:30You are Edward Timothy Mayhew, unemployed, a lodger at 18 Lord Cardigan Terrace?

00:17:39Yes.

00:17:40Address the board.

00:17:42What?

00:17:43Address the board.

00:17:44When you give an answer to a question, you address the board board.

00:17:47Did you say unemployed?

00:17:48Are you unemployed?

00:17:50You are a young man of sound body and some intelligence, it would seem.

00:17:54So why are you unemployed?

00:17:56I was denied my previous position.

00:17:58And why?

00:17:59My employers learnt of my intention to resist conscription.

00:18:03Hmm.

00:18:03What was your previous position?

00:18:05I was taking articles in a solicitor's practice.

00:18:08You were taking articles in the practice of law,

00:18:11and yet you intend to flout that law by turning your back on your king and country.

00:18:15I flout no laws.

00:18:18It is my right to make application for exemption.

00:18:20Do you people not realise that you put victory for us in jeopardy by your cowardly attitude?

00:18:26Do you wish to see us defeated and overrun with Germans?

00:18:29It is my belief that no one will win the war,

00:18:32at least not in the conclusive manner that you wish.

00:18:34The sides are too evenly matched,

00:18:36and that by definition we will all lose by it.

00:18:38That is not a very correct thing to say.

00:18:40In view of the glorious fight our fine young men are waging.

00:18:44The young men are certainly fine,

00:18:46but the fight,

00:18:47if you do not consider it remotely glorious.

00:18:49What would you do if you find a German raping your sister?

00:18:53Am I supposed to answer questions like that?

00:18:56You are insolent.

00:18:57You are obliged to answer all questions.

00:19:00I can do your case no good by being difficult.

00:19:03So, what would you do?

00:19:05I would do what I would do

00:19:06if I found any man forcing his attentions on a woman.

00:19:09And what would that mean?

00:19:10I should endeavour to interpose myself between them.

00:19:14Interpose? What does he mean?

00:19:15I mean that I should not shoot him or castrate him.

00:19:18But if he were a German...

00:19:20I fail to see why a German should be singled out for special treatment.

00:19:24You really mean to say you wouldn't kill anybody?

00:19:27Yes.

00:19:29What an awful state of mind to be in.

00:19:31Have you ever been in a lunatic asylum?

00:19:33No, I have not.

00:19:35Where are you going?

00:19:36We have not finished with you yet.

00:19:38I think you had finished with me

00:19:39before this pantomime even begun.

00:19:42You are supposed to sit in impartial judgment.

00:19:44And yet you have already condemned me by your prejudice.

00:19:46I can see I am not going to get a fair hearing,

00:19:48so I might as well return home and await the police.

00:19:51Do you not wish the board to consider your claim?

00:19:52Of course I do.

00:19:54I have a conscience that tells me I must not kill.

00:19:56But I also have an instinct that tells me

00:19:58I shall go to prison if I do not kill.

00:20:00What is the point in my continuing?

00:20:02The Major presumes to speak for me in my beliefs very well.

00:20:06I will speak for you in making your judgment.

00:20:08Application not allowed.

00:20:09Next applicant, please.

00:20:13Teddy, why?

00:20:15Why walk out like that?

00:20:17Why?

00:20:18Why should I listen to it all?

00:20:20I will not be forcibly made a soldier.

00:20:23The duty to fight for my country, right or wrong, is piffle.

00:20:26If the country is wrong, then it is wrong and should have no support.

00:20:29We are wrong.

00:20:31Germany is wrong.

00:20:32Just because I'm not prepared to pull a German's guts out on the end of a bayonet,

00:20:36does that make me an enemy of Britain?

00:20:41What's that you have?

00:20:42It's not important.

00:20:43What is it?

00:20:44I made it for you, so I might as well give it to you.

00:20:48Even if it is the wrong time.

00:20:50It's a cake.

00:20:52Cake?

00:20:52I know it's the wrong time, but you're not eating.

00:20:54So I should eat cake?

00:20:56No, it was meant as a present.

00:20:59I'm trying to get through to you.

00:21:02You should have the chance to go.

00:21:04Now.

00:21:05Because whatever happens from now on isn't going to be easy.

00:21:07It will hurt us both.

00:21:09I know.

00:21:10You are wavering.

00:21:12Not about us.

00:21:13But about my stand.

00:21:15No, you are.

00:21:15Don't deny it.

00:21:17Go on, get out.

00:21:19Go on.

00:21:20No.

00:21:20Yes.

00:21:21Go.

00:21:22You don't believe.

00:21:24I do.

00:21:26There's a crack and it can only grow.

00:21:27Now go.

00:21:28Teddy, please.

00:21:30I've no room left for half-hearted loyalties.

00:21:32You think I'm half-hearted?

00:21:33About me, no.

00:21:34But about what I believe in, yes.

00:21:37The time has gone for doubts.

00:21:39That cake there, that wretched cake is probably the last thing I'll ever bake in my mother's kitchen.

00:21:44And do you know why?

00:21:45Because I told my family about you.

00:21:48I know you did.

00:21:49I have now been informed that I'll no longer be welcome at home.

00:21:52All right.

00:21:53They can hate me if they want to.

00:21:55But don't you say, don't you dare say.

00:21:59There.

00:22:00You can try eating cake now.

00:22:05Teddy, you're shaking.

00:22:08Yes, look.

00:22:12The brave young man who has stood up to authority is shaking.

00:22:16Surely that same brave young man cannot be afraid.

00:22:20Afraid of a group of bigots who have the power to condemn him and yet are themselves safe in the knowledge that they are too old to go to fight.

00:22:29Oh, yes, Molly.

00:22:30Your brave young man is.

00:22:32Old men made this war.

00:22:37Bring the soldiers home and let them do the crawling in the flounders and the mud.

00:22:42Molly, you're clouding everything.

00:22:46Mr. Mayhew?

00:22:47I cannot take things well enough with you around.

00:22:50With you around, I would want my freedom too much.

00:22:53So for my sake, go.

00:22:56Mr. Mayhew, I've heard news about you that a landlady doesn't want to hear about one of her tenants, Mr. Mayhew.

00:23:04I should have thrown you out.

00:23:07Edward Mayhew, we're police officers.

00:23:13Let them wear, until peace be signed, a white armlet of shame.

00:23:19And let it be made plain that after the war, there will be no place for them at the ballot box.

00:23:24It is an ignoble thought that we should be governed by men who do not scruple to throw the burden of defence upon others

00:23:31and to exult in the very act of shirking a superior wisdom and piety.

00:23:42Have you eaten since dinner?

00:23:44I haven't eaten for two days.

00:23:46Hunger strike before they've even put you away.

00:23:48When you're out of a job and a public enemy, sometimes you need what money you have for other things.

00:23:53Oh, food takes second place with you, does it?

00:23:56I'd rather have a bed and a place to think just at the moment.

00:23:58Well, we've given you that free of charge.

00:24:01And if you want supper, you won't have to dig in your pocket for that neither.

00:24:04I'll live.

00:24:05I wouldn't.

00:24:06I didn't get into having to put extra holes in my belt by not scoffing what was in front of me.

00:24:12I'll survive.

00:24:13Leave me alone.

00:24:14There'll be a lot more trouble ahead for you, my lad.

00:24:17Dad, you make a stand now, and who've you got to see you doing it?

00:24:21You've been arrested and you're in a station cell for one night.

00:24:26The chief and quite a few of the lads will be glad to see you rot here and now.

00:24:30You shouldn't be wanting that.

00:24:32I shouldn't be here at all.

00:24:34Quite a lot of important people think you should.

00:24:37Can't you leave me alone?

00:24:38If that's your wish.

00:24:40But harking to this.

00:24:42I took a risk speaking as I've done.

00:24:44And that's a fact.

00:24:45What do you mean?

00:24:46Look, it's not in your mind to know what I mean.

00:24:49Tell me.

00:24:51Look, if you'd killed someone, I wouldn't pass a second by my watch with you.

00:24:55If you'd nicked something, I'd tell you what a daft boogie you'd taken up as being and leave it at that.

00:25:00It's the quickness, you see.

00:25:02No fraternisation.

00:25:04Take a pen, put down the charge, lock him up, leave him.

00:25:08Later, shove him a plate of scoff and a mug of tea.

00:25:10Leave him again, and in the morning, unlock him to allow the law to proceed as it must.

00:25:16You are no different if you look at the book.

00:25:18But the chief told me not to feed you.

00:25:22Well, who gives a wink to the book when you've got a padlock on a conchie downstairs?

00:25:27Some men interpret that one way.

00:25:29I interpret it another.

00:25:31But if you have not been addressed in a sympathetic voice, then what's the bother?

00:25:36Don't go.

00:25:37Got to.

00:25:38There's no fraternisation, you see.

00:25:42But I've got a meal gathering the cold here.

00:25:45You'll be in an army detention centre soon anyway.

00:25:48And there won't be much time for fattening up there.

00:25:51Still, you don't want it.

00:25:53I can always put another hole in me belt.

00:25:56And I'll see you for court in the morning.

00:25:58I can smell the food.

00:25:59Then eat it.

00:26:00Come on, eat it.

00:26:04Well, I suppose you think you're the first.

00:26:10We've had your people through here before.

00:26:12I've seen.

00:26:14I've seen where they've gone.

00:26:16So you think I should give up, do you?

00:26:17Eat that, son.

00:26:20And don't give up.

00:26:24I've got a boy.

00:26:26How old are you?

00:26:28I've a boy younger than yourself, I put it.

00:26:31Not with your education, mind.

00:26:34He signed.

00:26:36Against his father.

00:26:38But he signed.

00:26:39Where is he now?

00:26:41Six months since we have their telegram.

00:26:44Not dead, but missing.

00:26:47Six months, not dead, but missing.

00:26:49Same thing, only they don't have a body.

00:26:52Is this his hand?

00:26:53Is this his thigh?

00:26:54Is this his brain?

00:26:56Oh, slam the bits together and send off the regrets.

00:26:59Missing or dead, he's as gone as ever he might be.

00:27:03And we shot set eyes on him again.

00:27:05And what bloody thought?

00:27:08Oh, I'll leave you now.

00:27:13Don't you want the plate?

00:27:15Now, finish it in your own time.

00:27:17But if the night officer puts his mush around the door,

00:27:21slip it under the bench, there's a lad.

00:27:28Yes, Mr. Wilson?

00:27:29No complaints.

00:27:32Well, the pipes that run through my room are very noisy

00:27:36and the window is jammed shut.

00:27:38But you get what you pay for.

00:27:40I suppose so.

00:27:42You off then?

00:27:43Yes, I'm going to work.

00:27:45A letter's come for you.

00:27:46A letter?

00:27:47Where?

00:27:48Here.

00:27:50May I have it, please?

00:27:52Dearest Molly.

00:27:55I am glad to learn that you have found some lodgings.

00:27:58I hope they are not too primitive.

00:28:01I feel I have been monstrously cruel to you during my last few days of freedom.

00:28:06Please forgive me.

00:28:06But you should know that even though I am no longer free,

00:28:10my attitudes are not going to be moved or changed one inch.

00:28:15Also, my darling, be prepared for fewer of these letters.

00:28:18The magistrate may have forced me into the army,

00:28:22but I am not going to be a good little boy and behave myself here in the camp.

00:28:26So the first thing they will do is to stop me writing.

00:28:28If ever we lose contact for a while,

00:28:32then you should go to the No Conscription Fellowship.

00:28:36It is so good to know that we have an organised campaign behind us.

00:28:40It's their business to trace all our whereabouts,

00:28:42making it more difficult for the army to do what they would really like to do to us

00:28:46if they felt they could get away with it.

00:28:48You were late this morning, Miss Hibbert.

00:28:50Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

00:28:52The morning papers have not been put out in the reading room.

00:28:55What are you reading?

00:28:57Only a letter, sir.

00:28:58Only a letter, sir.

00:29:00And is this only a letter, sir, a personal one?

00:29:03Yes, sir.

00:29:03Speak up.

00:29:05Yes, sir.

00:29:07From a young man?

00:29:09Yes.

00:29:10From France, I presume.

00:29:12Well, put it away, girl.

00:29:13You can hear all the news from the battlefield when you're at home this evening.

00:29:16Now, come along.

00:29:21My dearest,

00:29:23sometime there has to come an end to this war.

00:29:25Now, reason must prevail.

00:29:28But that is in the future.

00:29:30And as I sit here with pencil in hand,

00:29:32that future appears indistinct.

00:29:35Keep faith, my darling.

00:29:36I pray you.

00:29:38For in that knowledge,

00:29:39I will find the strength to continue.

00:29:42All my love,

00:29:44Teddy.

00:29:48Private Mayhew, sir!

00:29:49Bring him in.

00:29:50Escort!

00:29:50And the double!

00:29:53Escort!

00:29:54Shun!

00:29:55Salute and state your name, rank, and number to the officer.

00:29:58Announce yourself in the correct banner to the officer.

00:30:02Now, look, Mayhew,

00:30:03you're already in trouble up to the net.

00:30:05All right, sergeant.

00:30:06I want to teach him to show the proper respect, sir.

00:30:08Just read the charges, will you?

00:30:10Charges on!

00:30:11Continued and willful refusal to obey orders,

00:30:13refusal to salute officers,

00:30:14and refusal to wear the king's uniform, sir!

00:30:16Thank you, sergeant.

00:30:18That will be all.

00:30:20That will be all.

00:30:22I think the escort should stay with the prisoner, sir.

00:30:25He doesn't look dangerous to me.

00:30:27Very good, sir.

00:30:28Escort, about turn.

00:30:31Quick, march!

00:30:37Well, Mayhew,

00:30:38what have you got to say?

00:30:39Look,

00:30:42there's no point in continuing to act the goat, is there?

00:30:46No point in making things more difficult for yourself

00:30:49than they are already?

00:30:51You've had your say,

00:30:52you've made your point,

00:30:53you entered your claim and you lost.

00:30:56It is our duty now to make you a soldier

00:30:58whether you like it or not.

00:31:00And as it's a fait accompli anyway,

00:31:02you might as well like it.

00:31:04Now, look, old boy,

00:31:06I can sense you're a man of education and culture,

00:31:09we're equals, you and I.

00:31:13You've been allowed to make your protest

00:31:15and that's smashing.

00:31:18After all, that's what England's all about.

00:31:20This fight against the Bosch

00:31:22is a fight for freedom after all, isn't it?

00:31:27I'm talking to you man to man

00:31:30and a captain shouldn't be doing that with a private.

00:31:34Look,

00:31:35if you'd only knuckle down

00:31:37and do what's expected of you,

00:31:39do you find that army life isn't as bad as all that?

00:31:43Oh, Spartan may be,

00:31:45but not that bad.

00:31:46My objections to being a soldier...

00:31:47I think you should ask for permission to speak.

00:31:51May I have permission to speak?

00:31:53Go ahead.

00:31:55My objections to being a soldier

00:31:56have nothing whatsoever to do with

00:31:58whether I will find enough creature comforts

00:32:00to keep me happy.

00:32:01My objections...

00:32:02Oh, I know all about your objections.

00:32:05I've been given a very efficiently compiled history of them.

00:32:08Then you should know that you will have little success

00:32:09in making me a soldier.

00:32:11I could put you on yet another charge

00:32:12for what you've just said.

00:32:13Then do so.

00:32:15For pity's sake!

00:32:17If not for your country,

00:32:18then for yourself.

00:32:19Stick with it.

00:32:20Put on the uniform,

00:32:21obey orders,

00:32:22and be a soldier.

00:32:24If not for pity's sake,

00:32:25then for sanity's sake.

00:32:27If that is sanity,

00:32:29then I'd be glad to be counted

00:32:31amongst the lunatics.

00:32:32You are making things

00:32:34very, very difficult for yourself.

00:32:38Sergeant!

00:32:41Sir!

00:32:42Take him away.

00:32:53How deep is it now?

00:32:55Twice as deep as a grave, Sarge,

00:32:56and we've struck water.

00:32:58Out you come, then.

00:33:00Now.

00:33:02See, that hole, mate, you.

00:33:04Muddy, isn't it?

00:33:05Bloody cold, too.

00:33:06I'm reliably informed.

00:33:08Now, are you going to put this uniform on?

00:33:10One way or another, you will,

00:33:12so you might as well do it now.

00:33:15Hicks, Baker, hold him.

00:33:18Hold him!

00:33:19Hold the bugger!

00:33:21Pull off the trousers, you idiot!

00:33:23Pull!

00:33:26Now, what have we got here?

00:33:28Now, look, my brave warriors are the king.

00:33:30A conchie without his decency.

00:33:34Why, don't you learn something every day?

00:33:36Them conchies are built the same as us.

00:33:39Proper little babe in the mud, aren't we?

00:33:41Suits you, bollock naked and covered with slime.

00:33:45Right, then.

00:33:46Put him in.

00:33:47But gentle now, men.

00:33:49Now, you'll stay there and rot for all I care

00:33:55until you wear that uniform.

00:33:58Why don't you say something?

00:34:00Why don't you abuse me?

00:34:02I'd like that just now.

00:34:03Go on, tell me something rude about me,

00:34:05so as I can belt you.

00:34:06Dearest Molly,

00:34:12I write this from the guard room.

00:34:15I have been transferred to a detention centre

00:34:17and so it will be, by necessity, short and careful.

00:34:21If it is anything but that,

00:34:23then it may never reach you.

00:34:24They still persist in trying to make me a soldier

00:34:28and I still refuse.

00:34:30They are now to court-martial me,

00:34:32but please do not let this distress you

00:34:34as most of our lads get court-martialed sooner or later.

00:34:38On one thing, though, the army have relented,

00:34:41for I am to be allowed my first visit.

00:34:44I can do nothing now

00:34:45but sit and fidget with excitement until I see you.

00:34:49There's to be no touching, miss.

00:34:51Take your hand off, please.

00:34:54I'm glad my letters are getting through.

00:34:58You can never be sure.

00:34:59They hardly ever let me see anything you write.

00:35:03It's good to see you, Molly.

00:35:05Teddy, you look so pale.

00:35:06There is to be no touching.

00:35:08Don't you fret, I'm well enough.

00:35:10But what are they doing to you?

00:35:12I told you I would be a bad boy.

00:35:14They are treating me as such.

00:35:17You're wearing uniform.

00:35:19In the end, it was all they left me to wear.

00:35:24I don't know whether you'll be allowed them,

00:35:28but I brought you some cigarettes.

00:35:30Some matches, too.

00:35:32One thing isn't much use without the other, is it?

00:35:35I want you to contact the No Conscription Fellowship for me.

00:35:46I've written a description of the things that have been done to me

00:35:48and to the other objectors here.

00:35:50What things?

00:35:51There's to be no whispering, neither.

00:35:52I need to hear what you're saying.

00:35:54Put your hand under the table.

00:35:55Take it.

00:35:55I've made it look like a handkerchief.

00:35:56No whispering, I said.

00:35:58What did you just tell her?

00:35:59Wipe your nose with it.

00:35:59Haven't you ever been in love, Corporal?

00:36:03What do you mean?

00:36:04I mean, can't I say anything to her

00:36:06without your prying ears being witness to it all?

00:36:08Orders are that prisoners may not be allowed to whisper.

00:36:10I'm watching you make you...

00:36:12Anyway, time's up.

00:36:14I do love you, Molly.

00:36:16Yes.

00:36:17What's the matter?

00:36:19Nothing.

00:36:21Molly?

00:36:22Molly?

00:36:22A hatch in the barrack gates was open for me to leave.

00:36:30And I was leaving Teddy behind.

00:36:33We told each other white lies and hidden everything.

00:36:38The hatch that had been opened so automatically for me to exit

00:36:42was slammed shut with the same unthinking precision.

00:36:47Three or four trees in the park outside

00:36:49were covered with whiteness of tissue paper kites.

00:36:53The trees seemed to dance with them

00:36:55as though the breeze that tugged and tore at the paper

00:36:57would uproot a chestnut

00:36:59with all its weight and age

00:37:01like discarded litter on a holiday weekend.

00:37:04Children played and shouted round the trees,

00:37:07still releasing their treasured toys

00:37:09to be entangled and lost in the branches above.

00:37:14Hello?

00:37:16Hello.

00:37:18You're looking at the kites.

00:37:20Quite a show they make, don't they?

00:37:22Kites are for flying.

00:37:24Those children seem to want to lose them in the trees.

00:37:27Been inside on a visit, have you?

00:37:29Yes.

00:37:30He's a CO.

00:37:31Who?

00:37:32A conscientious objector.

00:37:34Yes.

00:37:35For all the good it'll do him.

00:37:37Come away from here.

00:37:39I want to show you something.

00:37:40What do you want?

00:37:41Over here.

00:37:42Here.

00:37:42Look.

00:37:43Closer.

00:37:44Come on.

00:37:44There.

00:37:45Now.

00:37:46What do you see?

00:37:47I don't want to see.

00:37:48Prison cell windows.

00:37:49Rows of them.

00:37:50Now look behind you.

00:37:51What do you see?

00:37:52Trees.

00:37:53Yeah, but what's in those trees?

00:37:55The kites.

00:37:56I'm not blind.

00:37:57And neither of those windows.

00:37:59They see the kites as well as we do.

00:38:01Are you thirsty?

00:38:03I am.

00:38:04Come with me.

00:38:05Where are we going?

00:38:06Come with me.

00:38:09But the children, they have their mothers with them.

00:38:15Find a nice taste.

00:38:17Over there.

00:38:18By the window.

00:38:20Please, sit.

00:38:23No room for anyone to join us.

00:38:26Funny place, isn't it?

00:38:27The average age of the clientele must be well over a hundred.

00:38:31And look at those hats.

00:38:35If you put those hats all together and floated them in the channel, you'd double the navy overnight.

00:38:40What a contribution to the war effort.

00:38:42Yes, please.

00:38:43What will you have?

00:38:44Tea?

00:38:44Coffee?

00:38:45Bun?

00:38:45Cake?

00:38:46Just tea, please.

00:38:47Just a pot of tea, then, please.

00:38:50I'm sorry I treated you as I did.

00:38:51I was carried away with the excitement of the kites.

00:38:55Have you ever heard of the No Conscription Fellowship?

00:38:59Yes.

00:39:00From Teddy.

00:39:01Teddy.

00:39:03Teddy, Teddy.

00:39:06Ah, would that be Edward Mayhew?

00:39:08Yes.

00:39:09Ah, not a bad memory for names, then.

00:39:11We've 20 in this detention centre at the moment.

00:39:13Just a minute.

00:39:14Let me look in my file.

00:39:16Mayhew.

00:39:18Mayhew.

00:39:20A month in camp and a week here, am I right?

00:39:23Yes.

00:39:23You're in love with him?

00:39:27What were the kites for?

00:39:28You all got a tea, miss.

00:39:30Oh, thank you.

00:39:31And you're complaining to this about the hats, miss.

00:39:33A lady's complained to the manageress.

00:39:36Indeed.

00:39:36And the kites?

00:39:40A signal to our men inside.

00:39:43You probably think you're quite alone in your troubles, but you're not.

00:39:47We're building influence through our very numbers.

00:39:49And we are going to stir the public's conscience.

00:39:55Have you seen this before?

00:39:57It's a leaflet the fellowship's published.

00:39:59It's called Repeal the Act.

00:40:00I think Teddy read it.

00:40:02You read it.

00:40:03Aloud.

00:40:06Conscription is now law in this country of free traditions.

00:40:10Our hard-won liberties have been violated.

00:40:13Give it to me.

00:40:14I want to say something to those hats.

00:40:18Conscription imperils the freedom of individual conscience

00:40:20and establishes in our midst that militarism which menaces all social progress

00:40:25and divides the people of all nations.

00:40:28We reaffirm our determined resistance to all that is established

00:40:31by the Military Service Act.

00:40:33Repeal the Act.

00:40:34That is your only safeguard.

00:40:36Yes.

00:40:36The manageress is telling me.

00:40:37If this be not done,

00:40:39there will be imposed upon us the very system

00:40:41which our statesmen affirm that they set out to overthrow.

00:40:44Oh, Macy, she comes out in some way.

00:40:45What shall it profit the nation

00:40:47if it shall win the war and lose its own soul?

00:40:50Young woman, that leaflet you read

00:40:52has been banned by the government.

00:40:54Have you ever read it?

00:40:55Out!

00:40:56Or I shall have the police come.

00:40:57You shall have to go, miss.

00:40:59Out!

00:41:05You see those children and their mothers.

00:41:08Somewhere, those children have fathers

00:41:10and those mothers have husbands

00:41:11whom they're not allowed to see.

00:41:13Well, they alone can't chase and harass

00:41:15those who are in prison and damage their loved ones.

00:41:17But together, Molly, together we can.

00:41:20The army's beginning to force-feed, you know.

00:41:25Have you ever been force-fed?

00:41:27No.

00:41:27Neither have I.

00:41:28But I know people who have.

00:41:30Sylvia Pankhurst, for one.

00:41:32You know her?

00:41:33Yes, I worked with her at her mission in the East End.

00:41:35You were a suffragette.

00:41:37So was I.

00:41:38All the women now in the fellowship were.

00:41:40That's how I met Teddy.

00:41:42We went to the meetings together.

00:41:44I found Christopel very impressive.

00:41:47Well, from now on, you can forget her.

00:41:49And her mother.

00:41:50They've shattered the women's movement

00:41:52by their support of the war.

00:41:53They were brave women.

00:41:55And violent women.

00:41:57With the exception of Sylvia,

00:41:58they've sold out to the very people

00:42:00they campaigned against.

00:42:02Over there in that tea room,

00:42:04they really hated you.

00:42:07They'll hate Teddy as well.

00:42:08I don't want that.

00:42:10You'd rather he enlisted and went to France, would you?

00:42:12No.

00:42:14I don't know.

00:42:17You ask if I love him.

00:42:19Yes, I do.

00:42:19But the rest of the country can only hate him.

00:42:22Then the country must be made to see.

00:42:25I know all the arguments

00:42:26and the reasoning behind the peace movements.

00:42:28God knows.

00:42:29I've had them drummed into me enough by Teddy.

00:42:31But deep down inside me,

00:42:34a little red, white and blue flag is still waving.

00:42:38And it won't stop.

00:42:40Then don't let it.

00:42:41I'm British, too.

00:42:42And so are the men behind that barrack wall across the common.

00:42:46But patriotism can only mean one thing when you're at war.

00:42:52Molly, you're sitting on the fence

00:42:53and you can't afford to be there.

00:42:55That's not going to help Teddy.

00:42:59Molly.

00:42:59I'm sorry.

00:43:02Please wait.

00:43:04Please.

00:43:06What are you looking at?

00:43:10It's a handkerchief.

00:43:12Teddy has written on it.

00:43:13Bad news.

00:43:23Have a look.

00:43:25If you call men being stripped, kicked and beaten bad,

00:43:30if it is bad to truss a man up and drag him by a horse

00:43:33or strap another in a straitjacket for days at a time...

00:43:36The fellowship's starting a newspaper.

00:43:38May we print this?

00:43:40I...

00:43:40I think that's what Teddy hoped you'd do.

00:43:45Ah!

00:43:46If that's six o'clock, I'm afraid I have to go.

00:43:49We were meeting this evening.

00:43:51Why don't you come?

00:43:53I think I'd rather sit here for a minute.

00:43:56Look, here's our address.

00:43:59If you ever get any further news like this,

00:44:01or you want to talk,

00:44:02or just need a sympathetic ear.

00:44:05All right?

00:44:13Now feeling no longer so isolated,

00:44:16I went with her,

00:44:17this positive girl of the close-cropped hair,

00:44:20the short skirt and pamphlets.

00:44:22I followed her rapid feet to a church some miles away,

00:44:25still not knowing whether I was acting for the best.

00:44:32Ladies and gentlemen,

00:44:34we know that nothing can happen

00:44:36to deflect the fellowship from its true purpose,

00:44:39but it is with regret that the committee has to inform you

00:44:42of a disturbing and ominous turn in events.

00:44:47Despite assurances from the Home Office

00:44:49that advocacy of repeal was a legal activity,

00:44:52we have learned that the eight committee members

00:44:54who put their names to the leaflet entitled

00:44:56Repeal the Act

00:44:58have all received summonses

00:45:00under that infamous measure,

00:45:02the Defense of the Realm Act.

00:45:04We sense that the warmongering cabinet

00:45:07is beginning to feel threatened by us.

00:45:11We all know well

00:45:13how certain national newspapers regard us,

00:45:17but it is with pride and pleasure

00:45:19that I announce that we can continue our campaign

00:45:22on equal terms.

00:45:25The fellowship will, from Thursday,

00:45:27be publishing a weekly newspaper of its own.

00:45:33But while we await the first copies of the tribunals,

00:45:37let us not forget the great help

00:45:39that has been given to us

00:45:41by those certain national newspapers.

00:45:43they made damage

00:45:45and now we make a stand for,

00:45:47but we must thank them

00:45:48for spreading news of our activities.

00:45:50I only mention this now

00:45:53until I see that one of those helpful gentlemen of the press,

00:45:57indeed the editor of the Daily Express,

00:46:00has decided to be present at our gathering tonight.

00:46:02Is he speaking at the list?

00:46:03Thanks.

00:46:04That very same gentlemen of the press

00:46:06has something to say.

00:46:07Sir,

00:46:08in gratitude for your assistance,

00:46:10the floor is yours.

00:46:11My paper gives notice of your meetings and activities

00:46:13because my readers wish to know

00:46:15who the pro-German,

00:46:17the socialists

00:46:18and the other cowards and shirkers

00:46:19are in their midst.

00:46:21And many of my readers

00:46:23have responded in the manner

00:46:24their kingdom country would expect of them.

00:46:26Open the doors!

00:46:27This is not an open meeting!

00:46:29It is now!

00:46:31What are those soldiers doing here?

00:46:32They've become an unofficial capacity.

00:46:34They are on leave.

00:46:35And as private citizens,

00:46:36they have a right to express their feelings.

00:46:38What about us?

00:46:38We have no rights.

00:46:39Cowards and shirkers have no rights.

00:46:41I hereby declare

00:46:42that we have taken over this hall

00:46:44but a rally in support

00:46:45of the armed forces

00:46:46of Great Britain and the Empire.

00:46:48Will you please leave?

00:46:49No!

00:46:50It is our meeting now

00:46:51and it is your turn to leave.

00:46:53Okay, go and send me the chair!

00:46:55Take that!

00:46:57I think the police are waiting for you,

00:47:00Mr. Chairman!

00:47:01Get down, man!

00:47:01Get down!

00:47:02Hit me then!

00:47:02Go on, man!

00:47:03Up you go!

00:47:04Turn the door!

00:47:05Will you please let go of my arm?

00:47:07I have the chair!

00:47:09This is our meeting now!

00:47:11Look at them!

00:47:13It's contemptible!

00:47:15They profess they would prefer

00:47:16to see their mothers murdered

00:47:17and their sisters outraged

00:47:19rather than hurt their brother German!

00:47:22Throw the Hun lovers out!

00:47:24Roll Britannia!

00:47:25Come on, Molly.

00:47:40You'd better leave.

00:47:42I can't let them do this

00:47:43and get away with this.

00:47:44No, no, no!

00:47:44Go on!

00:47:45Go on!

00:47:47Go on!

00:47:48Go on!

00:47:50Go on!

00:47:51Go on!

00:47:52Go on!

00:47:53Go on!

00:47:53What about the others?

00:47:54I don't know!

00:47:56I can't see it!

00:47:57Go on!

00:47:58Go on!

00:47:59Go on!

00:48:00Go on!

00:48:02Go on!

00:48:03Go on!

00:48:04Go on!

00:48:05Go on!

00:48:09I had no idea it was like this.

00:48:11Listen, stay right here.

00:48:12Over here!

00:48:13Hello.

00:48:14Been turfed out your meeting, have you then?

00:48:16Speaker de Deutsch, do you then?

00:48:17Why don't you go to Berlin, where you belong?

00:48:19We are not German.

00:48:20Might as well be the help you give the Kaiser win the war.

00:48:22Let us pass, please.

00:48:24Let us pass, please.

00:48:25Isn't she a polite one?

00:48:26What harm have we done you?

00:48:27She here as a brother in the army.

00:48:30Where are your menfolk, eh?

00:48:31At home all cosy by the fire.

00:48:33He's in prison.

00:48:34They should be shot, the lot of them.

00:48:36The other one, I recognise her.

00:48:37She's one of their miserable bigwigs.

00:48:39I've seen you before.

00:48:40Grab her!

00:48:41No, leave her alone.

00:48:42Marcy, over here, quick.

00:48:43We've got a good one.

00:48:44What shall we do with you?

00:48:45What do you deserve?

00:48:47Leave go of her.

00:48:49Please, you're hiding her.

00:48:50Marcy, get her friends.

00:48:51What shall we do?

00:48:52I know.

00:48:53Stick her head in the fountain.

00:48:54Call her bloody politic in her.

00:48:56Nice coach, yes.

00:48:57Truth is going to get spoiled.

00:48:58Country lover.

00:49:02Shut that one up, Marcy.

00:49:03You're a country lover and a pasty face.

00:49:07What are you?

00:49:11Up for the third and last time, eh?

00:49:15God takes time.

00:49:16Oh, and who's God do you mean?

00:49:18There ain't no God on your side.

00:49:20I can see a copper over there.

00:49:21Better leave her.

00:49:22Can't you feel lucky this time?

00:49:24I've been watching for you.

00:49:28Lydia.

00:49:30Lydia.

00:49:31Can you stand?

00:49:34Take me back to the office.

00:49:38Oh, Lydia.

00:49:40We'll take it slowly.

00:49:44So this is the building, is it?

00:49:46Yes.

00:49:48Where do we go now?

00:49:49Up the stairs.

00:49:50Second floor.

00:49:54Careful now.

00:49:56Look, put your arm over me.

00:49:59Up we go.

00:50:01At the top of the stairs was a small office, seemingly filled with pale young men, a doctor

00:50:12tending their bloodied faces.

00:50:15Prominent in the room were two women.

00:50:18I would later learn their names, Joan Beecham and Catherine Marshall, and come to understand

00:50:24that without them there would be no newspaper, and there would be no fellowship.

00:50:33You call yourselves a peace movement.

00:50:35It's like a frontline hospital.

00:50:37One important difference, Doctor.

00:50:38In the battle this evening, our members were merely the victims, not the aggressors.

00:50:42You're here in the office.

00:50:43We're passing them up now.

00:50:44Has anybody gone to hospital, do you know?

00:50:47I said, has anybody gone to hospital?

00:50:51Well, can you try and get that organized?

00:50:53And telephone me back.

00:50:55All right.

00:50:56Where was I?

00:50:57No.

00:50:58Keep the dressing to your face.

00:50:59It'll help stop the bleeding.

00:51:00And let's have a look at you now.

00:51:02Oh, God.

00:51:03How did that happen?

00:51:04Well, they'd thrown them from the hall.

00:51:06I was struggling to get back inside when they slammed the door on my hand.

00:51:09I don't think I can deal with that.

00:51:11Doctor.

00:51:12Doctor, when you have a moment, please.

00:51:13In a minute.

00:51:14Close your eye.

00:51:15I'm good, please.

00:51:17That's it.

00:51:18Open your nose.

00:51:19Can you see him around?

00:51:21Good.

00:51:21Well done, Catherine.

00:51:22Well, there you are, Lydia.

00:51:23Trust you to find a doctor who treats pacifists at this hour of the night.

00:51:27It's a bit of a patronizing old goat, but we couldn't have done without him.

00:51:30Touch of the Catherine Marshall string pulling in Harley Street, no doubt.

00:51:33He owed me a favor.

00:51:34The number of useful people you know is quite staggering.

00:51:38Lydia, what happened to you?

00:51:39You're soaked.

00:51:40You look half dead.

00:51:41I think she swallowed a lot of water.

00:51:43How do you feel?

00:51:44I'm a bit dizzy, that's all.

00:51:45Just give me a moment.

00:51:46Well, help us, someone.

00:51:47Clear that chair.

00:51:49Please, so we can sit her down.

00:51:50I'm not dying.

00:51:51Stop the fussing.

00:51:52You can stay where you are until the doctor's had a look at you.

00:51:55Oh, Catherine, tell her.

00:51:56Doctor.

00:51:56And what's wrong with this young lady?

00:52:00You weren't punched and kicked as well, I trust.

00:52:02Breathe in.

00:52:04Good night.

00:52:06How's your vision?

00:52:07Crystal clear.

00:52:08Good.

00:52:09Don't dash about hither and thither for a few days.

00:52:12But I've no doubt such advice will fall upon their fears.

00:52:15Is that it, Catherine?

00:52:17I have a bed that I wish to return to, and so will all of you, if you have any sense.

00:52:22Good night.

00:52:23And thank you.

00:52:24Everybody, please, you'll have to go home now, just as the doctor advised.

00:52:27You may remember, we have a newspaper to write.

00:52:36Catherine, Joan, this is Molly.

00:52:38Thank you, my dear, for bringing Lydia back to us.

00:52:41We're grateful.

00:52:41We're very grateful.

00:52:42I didn't know it was like this.

00:52:44I didn't know outside the prison.

00:52:47And now you've seen.

00:52:48We aren't liked.

00:52:49We aren't liked at all.

00:52:50I want to join.

00:52:54Join?

00:52:54What?

00:52:55You.

00:52:57I want to join the fellowship.

00:52:59Well, we don't ask you to join.

00:53:01We ask you to believe in what we do.

00:53:03And I do.

00:53:04Please, I do.

00:53:05Why don't you stay, Molly?

00:53:07You could help us.

00:53:07Lydia, tonight is not the night to have a recruitment drive.

00:53:10May I stay?

00:53:11I can type in.

00:53:13I could catalog for you.

00:53:15Well, we couldn't pay you.

00:53:16I have my job and a room.

00:53:18I could come each evening.

00:53:20We should need accurate work.

00:53:22You shall have it.

00:53:23Very well, then.

00:53:25Welcome aboard the tribunal.

00:53:28Lydia had been right.

00:53:30The army started to place obstacles in my way and limit access to Teddy.

00:53:35I was refused point blank a pass to attend the court-martial.

00:53:40Being told later that he had been sentenced to two years' hard labor was made all the worse for me.

00:53:45Knowing that there would be no way that I could comfort him.

00:53:49They even began to return my letters.

00:53:52Unopened.

00:53:54I took to spending all my spare time helping out with the publication of the tribunal.

00:53:59Somehow it made me feel closer to him.

00:54:06When's Molly due in?

00:54:07She's so much faster than I am.

00:54:11Good afternoon.

00:54:12May I help you?

00:54:14Afternoon, Richard.

00:54:14This is the office of the tribunal newspaper?

00:54:18It is.

00:54:19And you are?

00:54:20Surely it would be more polite to tell me who you are first.

00:54:23How remiss.

00:54:24I'm Detective Inspector Cole.

00:54:26I've been asked by certain higher authorities to pay you ladies a social visit.

00:54:30That's very sociable of you, Inspector.

00:54:32Yes, indeed.

00:54:33And you ladies are very busy little people, I'm given to understand.

00:54:37Are you?

00:54:38Oh, it's gratifying to know our work is appreciated.

00:54:41Oh, yes.

00:54:42I read your newspaper every week.

00:54:44An avid reader.

00:54:45And do you enjoy it, Inspector?

00:54:47Oh, it's not what I would perhaps term light reading.

00:54:51I mean, I don't exactly sit down with my cocoa to peruse its pages.

00:54:55But you get a lot of information and food for thought.

00:54:57Oh, that we do, miss.

00:54:59Then we are honoured to count you amongst our readership.

00:55:02I should point out that I read your journal out of a sense of duty.

00:55:05We hope you do.

00:55:07That, on the whole, is why a hundred thousand other people also read it.

00:55:10That's quite a lot of readers.

00:55:12Oh, hello.

00:55:13Oh, good afternoon, miss.

00:55:14This is Detective Inspector...

00:55:16Cole.

00:55:17How do you do?

00:55:18Inspector Cole reads the tribunal.

00:55:20Bully for Inspector Cole.

00:55:22You've come to nose round, I suppose.

00:55:24Well, as I said to the other young lady, it is purely a social call.

00:55:28Ah, in that case, would you care for some tea?

00:55:30Most kind.

00:55:31A common kind, eh?

00:55:32But no.

00:55:33So, if it is not to drink our tea, to what do we owe the pleasure?

00:55:36Even the most social of social calls have some point to them,

00:55:39if only to pass on gossip or grumble about the rain.

00:55:41Have you come to grumble about the rain, Inspector?

00:55:44Or just grumble?

00:55:45I have called out of interest.

00:55:48Interest to see where a journal I read every week is published.

00:55:51A very educational journal.

00:55:53Now, I'm sure you won't deny such a reader the opportunity

00:55:56to have a look at what goes on to put the tribunal together.

00:56:01An educational look.

00:56:03In that case, Inspector, treat the place as your own.

00:56:06I will.

00:56:07I will.

00:56:07Provided, of course, you let us see your search warrant.

00:56:10What should I be doing with a warrant on a friendly visit like this, Miss Smith?

00:56:14You know my name, then.

00:56:16Well, if I'm right, the other young lady is Miss Beecham, correct?

00:56:18And a gentleman, a Mr. Hubert Peet, is the editor, correct?

00:56:24Do any other men work on this newspaper?

00:56:26Why do you ask?

00:56:27None of them would be hiding from their obligations

00:56:29under the Military Service Act by any chance.

00:56:32Our men do not shy away from arrest, Inspector.

00:56:37You have a lot of files here.

00:56:40I wonder what might be in them.

00:56:42What, or rather who, may I ask, are these files about?

00:56:46We keep track of all the men who have already been arrested.

00:56:48And you ladies are the keepers.

00:56:50Sounds a little to me like the zoological gardens in Regent's Park, doesn't it?

00:56:55You keeping an eye on a lot of creatures in little cages, eh?

00:57:00There are a lot of lions in London Zoo.

00:57:03Oh, you are a young woman of wit, I see.

00:57:06Are you not, Miss Beecham?

00:57:08Ah, you have a visitor.

00:57:10May I help you, please?

00:57:12Is this where I find the fellowship?

00:57:13Yes, who are you?

00:57:14Um, Miss, I'd rather my name was not known,

00:57:18but I've come on a matter of great urgency, as I see it,

00:57:20regarding some members of your movement.

00:57:22Oh, wait just a moment.

00:57:24Inspector, if your social calls are at an end,

00:57:26we do have a lot of work to get through.

00:57:29I hope I may pay you another social call very soon.

00:57:33Good afternoon, ladies.

00:57:37Oh, police.

00:57:38If I'd had knowledge of that...

00:57:39Now, what was this matter of great urgency?

00:57:41Um, I'll bring you this, because I'm a sympathiser,

00:57:44but I don't want no clash with the law.

00:57:46He's gone now?

00:57:47What's all this about?

00:57:49Employed by the Southern Railway Company,

00:57:51but being a member of the National Union of Railwomen,

00:57:53when I discovered it, I thought I should bring it to you.

00:57:56Yes, but what have you brought?

00:57:57This, this note.

00:57:59It was tossed from a Southampton-bound train

00:58:02in a cigarette packet landed on my platform.

00:58:05I have a notion it was intended for your eyes.

00:58:08Anybody could have picked it up, though.

00:58:10Them that threw it were lucky it were me.

00:58:12Oh, God.

00:58:13What does it say?

00:58:15Have a look.

00:58:17I've been dreading a day like this would come.

00:58:20We're going to have to be quick.

00:58:22Yes, I'll try and get all the information we have on the men involved.

00:58:25Give it to me again, will you?

00:58:26I need to know how many there are.

00:58:27I hope I did the right thing.

00:58:28Yes, you did, and we're very grateful.

00:58:31If Catherine's contacts in Parliament are going to do us any good,

00:58:34it's going to be now.

00:58:35Joan, take a closer look at that list of names.

00:58:38One in particular.

00:58:40Sorry, everybody.

00:58:41Sorry I'm late.

00:58:43Ah, Molly.

00:58:45Sorry I'm so late.

00:58:46The librarian needed some work.

00:58:47Oh, never mind about that.

00:58:48I'm afraid we have a crisis on our hands.

00:58:50Oh, what's going on?

00:58:52We've received information that a group of objectors

00:58:54have been taken from Landguard Fort

00:58:56and shipped across the Channel.

00:58:59Molly, dear, I have to warn you

00:59:00that we believe Teddy to be one of them.

00:59:03Teddy's in France?

00:59:05You must understand that in France

00:59:07he'll be under total army regulations

00:59:09and that the punishment for disobedience on active service

00:59:13is death.

00:59:15Miss Marshal, Miss Beecham, good morning to you.

00:59:20Good morning.

00:59:21With respect, Mr. Tennant,

00:59:23we hoped we would be received by Mr. Lloyd George.

00:59:25The Secretary of State is far too busy to receive deputations.

00:59:29Mr. Lloyd George was very vociferous in the house the other day,

00:59:32but his denials were far from convincing.

00:59:34The questions were sprung on him.

00:59:36He was hardly prepared.

00:59:37Hardly prepared with a collection of lies

00:59:39that your department is no doubt

00:59:41busy concocting for him to deliver

00:59:42in the session this afternoon.

00:59:44But he was prepared enough to say this,

00:59:47and I quote,

00:59:48With the kind of man who is an absolute objector,

00:59:52I personally have no sympathy whatsoever.

00:59:55I do not think they deserve

00:59:57the slightest consideration,

00:59:59and I shall only consider the best means

01:00:01of making the path of that class

01:00:03as hard as possible.

01:00:05You are misinterpreting what he said.

01:00:08Oh?

01:00:09Anyway,

01:00:09further questions raised in the house on this matter

01:00:11will be dealt with by me.

01:00:13The title of Secretary for War

01:00:15means exactly what it says.

01:00:17Mr. Lloyd George has far more important things on his mind

01:00:20than a handful of disaffected soldiers.

01:00:23That is the very point we are endeavouring to make.

01:00:25They are not soldiers.

01:00:28They have been pirated by the army

01:00:30with absolute disregard for the pledges

01:00:32made by your government.

01:00:34Now we learn they've been sent to France.

01:00:35Ah, but have they?

01:00:36The war office has received no reports to this effect?

01:00:39We have.

01:00:40From the men themselves.

01:00:42I dare say that some of your chaps

01:00:44are not above circulating falsehoods

01:00:46with the intention of embarrassing

01:00:48the civil and military authorities.

01:00:50I should have thought the army

01:00:51to be immune from such human traits

01:00:52is embarrassing.

01:00:53I can assure you that there is no intention

01:00:55whatsoever by the government

01:00:56to send conscientious objectors to France,

01:00:59whether it be to have them shot

01:01:00or force them to fight.

01:01:02In any case,

01:01:02the army does not,

01:01:04without the sanction of the cabinet,

01:01:06possess the authority to shoot them,

01:01:08even if they were in France,

01:01:09which, as I say,

01:01:10I do not believe.

01:01:11They are imprisoned at Boulogne.

01:01:13Your chaps told you this as well,

01:01:15did they?

01:01:15No.

01:01:16We have observers.

01:01:17Do you now?

01:01:19And would you mind telling us

01:01:20how you managed that?

01:01:21Not all the serving soldiers

01:01:22delight in this war

01:01:23as much as Mr Lloyd George seems to do.

01:01:25Are you saying

01:01:26that you've got this information

01:01:27from an enlisted man?

01:01:29I'm saying nothing.

01:01:30It's hardly relevant

01:01:31at this crucial time,

01:01:32Mr Lieutenant.

01:01:33What is relevant, however,

01:01:35is the disturbing extent

01:01:36to which an elected government

01:01:38has lost control

01:01:39of its own military

01:01:39and, above all,

01:01:41the power that this military

01:01:42can hold over

01:01:43the very lives

01:01:43of these objectors.

01:01:44Miss Marshal,

01:01:45Miss Beecham,

01:01:46I can assure you

01:01:47there is no intention

01:01:48of dealing with these men

01:01:50in any way harshly.

01:01:55Prisoners Barrett,

01:01:56Foyster,

01:01:57Mayhew,

01:01:57Ring and Scullard

01:01:59will take one pace forward.

01:02:01Move.

01:02:04Private Barrett C

01:02:05of the 2nd Eastern Company

01:02:06non-combatant corps

01:02:07tried by Fieldcorp Marshal

01:02:09for disobedience

01:02:10whilst undergoing

01:02:10field punishment.

01:02:12Sentenced to death

01:02:13by being shot.

01:02:14Confirmed by General

01:02:15Sir Douglas Haig.

01:02:17Private Foyster J

01:02:18tried by Fieldcorp Marshal

01:02:19for disobedience

01:02:20whilst undergoing

01:02:21field punishment.

01:02:23Sentenced to death

01:02:23by being shot.

01:02:25Confirmed by General

01:02:26Sir Douglas Haig.

01:02:27Private Mayhew E

01:02:28tried by Fieldcorp Marshal

01:02:30for disobedience

01:02:31whilst undergoing

01:02:32field punishment.

01:02:34Sentenced to death

01:02:34by being shot.

01:02:35Confirmed by General

01:02:36Sir Douglas Haig.

01:02:37The honourable members

01:02:41will know me

01:02:42to be no sympathiser

01:02:44with pacifists

01:02:45but I am highly

01:02:46disturbed by a report

01:02:47current in the lobbies

01:02:48tonight

01:02:49that five men

01:02:50in France

01:02:51have been sentenced

01:02:52to death.

01:02:53These men

01:02:54are stated to be

01:02:55conscientious objectors

01:02:57and there is a general

01:02:58feeling of resentment

01:03:00or alarm

01:03:00that a report

01:03:01of this sort

01:03:02should be current.

01:03:03I cannot believe

01:03:05it is true

01:03:06and I merely

01:03:06raise the question

01:03:07now

01:03:08to give the

01:03:09right honourable

01:03:09gentleman

01:03:10the undersecretary

01:03:11an opportunity

01:03:12of assuring the

01:03:13house

01:03:14that it is not

01:03:15true.

01:03:15I have to tell

01:03:18the house

01:03:18that these men

01:03:19and others

01:03:20have indeed

01:03:20been sent to France

01:03:21but I emphasise

01:03:23that it was without

01:03:24the knowledge

01:03:24of the government

01:03:25and I have also

01:03:27to tell you

01:03:28that we have

01:03:28confirmed the reports

01:03:29to which the

01:03:30honourable member

01:03:31refers.

01:03:32The death sentence

01:03:33has been pronounced

01:03:34on these five

01:03:34and on another

01:03:36thirty.

01:03:38But that this

01:03:40was done

01:03:40once again

01:03:41without the

01:03:42knowledge

01:03:42or connivance

01:03:43of the government

01:03:43the war office

01:03:45has sent telegrams

01:03:46ordering stairs

01:03:47of execution.

01:03:48It may not be

01:03:49easy to rescue

01:03:50these men

01:03:50but we regard

01:03:52it as highly

01:03:53desirable.

01:03:56How is she doctor?

01:03:57She is awake

01:03:57now but she is

01:03:58still very weak.

01:03:59May I see her?

01:04:00Not if all you

01:04:01have is bad news.

01:04:02The news is good.

01:04:03Then that will be

01:04:04better than anything

01:04:04I can give her.

01:04:06Then please

01:04:07let me in.

01:04:08You people do

01:04:09things to yourselves

01:04:09that no medicine

01:04:10can treat.

01:04:13Molly.

01:04:15Molly.

01:04:16Can you hear me?

01:04:21This isn't

01:04:22my room.

01:04:23We've moved you

01:04:24in with Joan

01:04:24and I.

01:04:26I have my own

01:04:27place.

01:04:28It was horrible.

01:04:29We couldn't let you

01:04:29stay there.

01:04:32Is he dead?

01:04:33Far from it.

01:04:35The sentences

01:04:36on all of them

01:04:36have been commuted.

01:04:38Are you telling

01:04:39the truth?

01:04:40Of course I am.

01:04:41And they are

01:04:44bringing him

01:04:45back to England.

01:04:48Will he be free?

01:04:50No.

01:04:52But I will be

01:04:53able to see him.

01:04:54Or perhaps.

01:04:57If they are not

01:04:58going to shoot him

01:04:58how long have

01:05:01they given him?

01:05:03Well ten years

01:05:04I am afraid.

01:05:05Ten years?

01:05:05Yes.

01:05:06But just him.

01:05:07Then they should

01:05:08have shot him.

01:05:09What's he going

01:05:10to be like

01:05:10after ten years

01:05:11breaking stones?

01:05:13Oh you don't

01:05:13mean that.

01:05:14He's alive.

01:05:15The war can't

01:05:16go on for ten years.

01:05:17They'll have to

01:05:18release him once

01:05:18over.

01:05:21Meantime you're

01:05:21still going to

01:05:22help us aren't

01:05:23you?

01:05:24How can we

01:05:24print the paper

01:05:25without Molly?

01:05:29On the war

01:05:30dragged.

01:05:31Right through

01:05:311917 we

01:05:33continued to

01:05:33publish.

01:05:34All the time

01:05:35wishing the job

01:05:36we were compelled

01:05:36to do be made

01:05:37unnecessary by

01:05:38the coming

01:05:39of peace.

01:05:40But no.

01:05:43In that year

01:05:44I was allowed

01:05:44very few visits

01:05:45to see Teddy.

01:05:47But I always

01:05:48went to the park

01:05:49to wait in case

01:05:50they'd take pity

01:05:51on us.

01:05:52When I did see

01:05:53him it was

01:05:55almost like a

01:05:55macabre portrait.

01:05:57The iron frame

01:05:59and his face

01:06:01on the other

01:06:01side of the mesh.

01:06:03The hard labour

01:06:04was turning him

01:06:05into a ghost.

01:06:12The pacifists

01:06:14whose tender

01:06:15consciences

01:06:16are making

01:06:16England ridiculous

01:06:18continually assert

01:06:19that if Great Britain

01:06:20were to declare

01:06:21the terms

01:06:22on which she is

01:06:22willing to make

01:06:23peace Germany

01:06:24would gladly

01:06:25lay down her arms

01:06:26and enter into

01:06:27negotiations.

01:06:29Be this true

01:06:30or not

01:06:31we know

01:06:32we must fight

01:06:32on until

01:06:33the spawn

01:06:34of the devil

01:06:35are utterly

01:06:36humiliated.

01:06:38By the start

01:06:39of 1918

01:06:39we could sense

01:06:40a change

01:06:41amongst ordinary

01:06:41people.

01:06:42A hardening

01:06:43of attitudes

01:06:44against this

01:06:44senselessness

01:06:45of war.

01:06:47It was achieving

01:06:48nothing.

01:06:49It could

01:06:50achieve

01:06:51nothing.

01:06:54Such feelings

01:06:55we sought

01:06:55to reflect

01:06:56in our newspaper.

01:06:58The Tribunal.

01:06:59Thursday,

01:07:00January the 3rd,

01:07:011918.

01:07:02The German

01:07:03Peace Offer

01:07:04by Bertrand Russell.

01:07:07If the governments

01:07:08of the Western

01:07:09powers refuse

01:07:10the German

01:07:10offer,

01:07:11they are enmasked

01:07:12before the world

01:07:13and make it clear

01:07:13to all that

01:07:14they are continuing

01:07:15the war for purposes

01:07:16of territorial

01:07:16and commercial

01:07:17aggrandizement.

01:07:19They know that

01:07:20from a patriotic

01:07:21point of view

01:07:22they cannot hope

01:07:23for a better peace

01:07:23by continuing

01:07:24the war.

01:07:25But from the point

01:07:26of view of preventing

01:07:27liberty and universal

01:07:28peace,

01:07:29there is something

01:07:29to be hoped for

01:07:30from that continuation.

01:07:32The American

01:07:33garrison which

01:07:34will soon

01:07:34be occupying

01:07:35England and

01:07:36France,

01:07:37whether or not

01:07:37they prove

01:07:37efficient against

01:07:38the Germans,

01:07:39will no doubt

01:07:40be capable

01:07:40of intimidating

01:07:41strikers,

01:07:42an occupation

01:07:43to which the

01:07:43American army

01:07:44is accustomed

01:07:44when at home.

01:07:47Lydia,

01:07:48Lydia,

01:07:49wake up.

01:07:49It's Molly,

01:07:50wake up.

01:07:51What's the time?

01:07:51It's early,

01:07:52but you must get

01:07:53dressed.

01:07:53What's happened?

01:07:54We've had word

01:07:55that the police

01:07:55are seizing

01:07:56every copy

01:07:56of the tribunal

01:07:57they can find

01:07:57up and down

01:07:58the country.

01:07:59They'd even

01:08:00broken into

01:08:00the office.

01:08:01They must have

01:08:02read something

01:08:02that disagreed

01:08:03with them.

01:08:03They're really

01:08:03out to do

01:08:04battle with us.

01:08:05Hand me my robe,

01:08:06will you?

01:08:07They can't silence us.

01:08:08They mean to have

01:08:09a very good try.

01:08:10Let them confiscate

01:08:11this issue

01:08:11if they must.

01:08:12We'll always publish

01:08:13next week.

01:08:14Will we?

01:08:14Without a printer?

01:08:15Without a printer?

01:08:16The police went there

01:08:17as well.

01:08:18And they closed

01:08:19them down.

01:08:20We're going to go

01:08:20on, Molly.

01:08:21We are.

01:08:22Come in, please.

01:08:26If you can find

01:08:27a way through

01:08:28the mess,

01:08:28the police are

01:08:29not too good

01:08:29at cleaning up

01:08:30after themselves.

01:08:32May I introduce

01:08:33Joan Beecham,

01:08:34who's now our editor.

01:08:35This is Mr. Street.

01:08:36Mr. Street is

01:08:37a printer.

01:08:38Ladies,

01:08:38your servant,

01:08:40I was greatly

01:08:40troubled when I learned

01:08:41of what had been

01:08:42done to you

01:08:42by the authorities.

01:08:44I thought the least

01:08:44I could do

01:08:45to serve you

01:08:46brave people

01:08:46was to offer

01:08:47my modest

01:08:48printing plant

01:08:49and place it

01:08:49at your disposal.

01:08:50That is a noble

01:08:51offer to make

01:08:52Mr. Street.

01:08:53But you realise

01:08:53that by printing

01:08:54the tribunal

01:08:54you may be

01:08:55putting your

01:08:55presses and

01:08:56your livelihood

01:08:57at risk.

01:08:57Dear woman,

01:08:58we printers

01:08:58may only flourish

01:08:59in a society

01:09:00where information

01:09:01and ideas

01:09:02and opinions

01:09:02can be passed

01:09:03on free

01:09:03and unchecked.

01:09:05By printing

01:09:05your paper

01:09:06I will make

01:09:06my contribution

01:09:07towards bringing

01:09:08back the values

01:09:09you and I

01:09:10hold so dear.

01:09:11And indeed,

01:09:12a climate of

01:09:13tolerance such as

01:09:13will permit those

01:09:14like myself

01:09:15to continue

01:09:16in our livelihood.

01:09:17That was well

01:09:17said,

01:09:18Mr. Street.

01:09:18My plant is

01:09:19not to be described

01:09:20as being in

01:09:21the World League

01:09:22but I think

01:09:23you'll find it

01:09:24more efficient

01:09:24than what you

01:09:25have here.

01:09:25Hello, Mr. Street.

01:09:37Mr. Street.

01:09:38Who's there?

01:09:40Me, Mr. Street.

01:09:42Molly and Midland.

01:09:43Who's there?

01:09:45Oh, it's you,

01:09:46young Molly.

01:09:47Good day to you.

01:09:48And to you,

01:09:48Mr. Street.

01:09:49These days,

01:09:50you and Martin

01:09:50will find a dark

01:09:51blue uniform

01:09:52and a helmet

01:09:52around every corner.

01:09:53I've also

01:09:54got the pocket.

01:09:55A little late,

01:09:56but you awake.

01:09:58What more

01:09:58do you say?

01:09:59I've got the

01:10:00final pocket.

01:10:01Best get into

01:10:01the office.

01:10:02It's a minor show

01:10:03you're doing

01:10:04for me, yes?

01:10:08Oh, yes,

01:10:09that's a lot better.

01:10:10You'll have to

01:10:10hold your talk

01:10:11even a minute,

01:10:12Molly.

01:10:12The door's shut

01:10:13and, well,

01:10:14for you,

01:10:14that's a world

01:10:14of difference.

01:10:15But the door

01:10:16in my ear

01:10:16takes the longer

01:10:17by a yard

01:10:18to close

01:10:18and a yearing

01:10:19to come through.

01:10:20Perils of a

01:10:21machine,

01:10:21pretty,

01:10:22see, Molly.

01:10:22It must be.

01:10:23Oh, this is

01:10:24the front page

01:10:24I've been waiting

01:10:25for, is it?

01:10:26We were waiting

01:10:26on the judge's verdict.

01:10:28A shout.

01:10:28The verdict.

01:10:30We had to wait.

01:10:31Nothing like

01:10:32fresh news

01:10:32to sell a paper,

01:10:33huh?

01:10:34I'd better set it up.

01:10:37I can offer you

01:10:38no tea,

01:10:39I'm afraid.

01:10:40Now,

01:10:40if you'd like

01:10:41a stout.

01:10:41Oh, no,

01:10:42thank you.

01:10:43No objections,

01:10:44I hope,

01:10:45if I do.

01:10:47Noisy

01:10:47hand-hot,

01:10:48my work.

01:10:51The fourth edition

01:10:53since the raid.

01:10:54Home office

01:10:55hasn't stopped us

01:10:56and the tribunal

01:10:56still goes out.

01:10:58We all seem

01:10:58to be clucking it,

01:10:59don't we?

01:11:01The tribunal.

01:11:04On February

01:11:04the 9th,

01:11:05the Honourable

01:11:06Bertrand Russell

01:11:07was sentenced

01:11:07at Bow Street

01:11:08to six months

01:11:09imprisonment

01:11:09for having written

01:11:10the article

01:11:11entitled

01:11:11The German Peace Offer.

01:11:13Joan Beaton,

01:11:14the publisher,

01:11:15was fined

01:11:16£60

01:11:16and £1

01:11:17costs.

01:11:20So,

01:11:21who are Mr Russell

01:11:22then?

01:11:23You know,

01:11:24I just can't

01:11:25picture him,

01:11:26a man of his

01:11:27position and background,

01:11:28him being a brother

01:11:29to an earl.

01:11:30I just can't

01:11:31picture him

01:11:31doing time.

01:11:32I really miss him.

01:11:33He did a lot for us.

01:11:34I can't picture him

01:11:35parading

01:11:35on some prison yard,

01:11:37sewing mail bags,

01:11:38eating prison food,

01:11:40swilling out his pot.

01:11:42But is it

01:11:42really funny?

01:11:45No.

01:11:46No,

01:11:47the government

01:11:47turns down

01:11:48offers a peace

01:11:49from the enemy

01:11:49and when people

01:11:50criticise them for it

01:11:51they put them in prison.

01:11:53No,

01:11:53no,

01:11:53it's not funny.

01:11:55It's not only

01:11:55Bertrand Russell

01:11:56who's in prison

01:11:57for wanting peace,

01:11:58you know.

01:11:59I'm sorry,

01:12:00love,

01:12:00I made a joke

01:12:01out of turn.

01:12:03You've got to find

01:12:03something to smile at.

01:12:06Any news of you,

01:12:07a young man?

01:12:10Molly?

01:12:12He's been moved

01:12:13to an army hospital.

01:12:16Finally,

01:12:16they deigned

01:12:17to treat him.

01:12:18What is it?

01:12:18Shh!

01:12:19What's wrong?

01:12:19There.

01:12:19What?

01:12:20There was a man

01:12:21at the window.

01:12:22He was looking at us.

01:12:26No one there now.

01:12:29They'll never

01:12:30leave us alone.

01:12:31You think

01:12:32he was the police?

01:12:33I know he was.

01:12:34Oh.

01:12:36Well,

01:12:37I better finish

01:12:38this page.

01:12:39They have newspapers

01:12:42in prison too,

01:12:42you know.

01:12:44They're written

01:12:44in pencil

01:12:45on toilet paper.

01:12:47Weekly subscription

01:12:48is six sheets

01:12:48of the stuff.

01:12:50They have to read

01:12:51them in their latrines.

01:12:53You see?

01:12:54Well,

01:12:55where's the harm

01:12:55in a laugh

01:12:56once in a while?

01:12:58Go on,

01:12:59have a stout here.

01:13:01All right.

01:13:03I've got a cup

01:13:04somewhere.

01:13:06Mr. Street,

01:13:07do you think

01:13:07we're going to

01:13:08shorten the war?

01:13:10Are we going

01:13:10to save even

01:13:11one life?

01:13:13I can't tell you

01:13:14that.

01:13:15Don't muggle me.

01:13:16I know the point

01:13:17from where I bloody hang.

01:13:19It's difficult

01:13:19to help our own men.

01:13:21Where does that

01:13:22put the soldiers?

01:13:25You're weary

01:13:25of it,

01:13:26all I can see.

01:13:27You're tired of it,

01:13:28I know,

01:13:28but you can't stop now.

01:13:30I'm older than you.

01:13:31I know these things.

01:13:32You have youth.

01:13:33I can only witness

01:13:34and print,

01:13:35print and witness.

01:13:36Be young now,

01:13:38comprehend it

01:13:39and break it.

01:13:43No,

01:13:43young woman,

01:13:44no.

01:13:45You must know

01:13:46the rules.

01:13:47But that was

01:13:47at the prison

01:13:48before he was ill.

01:13:49I neither know

01:13:49nor care about

01:13:50the rules

01:13:51they have in prison.

01:13:52This young woman

01:13:53has an army hospital.

01:13:54And this is where

01:13:55they said I should come.

01:13:56There'll be no

01:13:56troubling of my patients,

01:13:58so I suggest you go.

01:13:59I have no wish

01:14:00to trouble anyone.

01:14:02Please.

01:14:03No visits,

01:14:04Miss Hibbert.

01:14:06Soldiers can have visits.

01:14:07Soldiers are not in prison.

01:14:09They fought for their wounds.

01:14:11They have a right

01:14:11to be here.

01:14:12Teddy Mayhew

01:14:13is still alive,

01:14:14and for that,

01:14:14he has a right

01:14:15to be here.

01:14:16There are things

01:14:17best left unsaid,

01:14:19young woman.

01:14:20Your person

01:14:21is here,

01:14:22but he is to have

01:14:22no visits.

01:14:23And that is an order

01:14:24from the military authorities.

01:14:25You look lost,

01:14:30miss.

01:14:30Who's that?

01:14:31No one,

01:14:31any me.

01:14:33They're bringing

01:14:33the blighted ones

01:14:34back from mine.

01:14:36Are you from mine?

01:14:37No,

01:14:38no,

01:14:38I've been here

01:14:38since the song.

01:14:40Have you a young man

01:14:42inside,

01:14:42that right?

01:14:43Yes.

01:14:44He's not from mine,

01:14:45is he?

01:14:46No,

01:14:46no,

01:14:47he's not.

01:14:47No,

01:14:47I heard you talking.

01:14:49That matron's

01:14:49a character,

01:14:50isn't she?

01:14:51He's not a soldier.

01:14:53No,

01:14:53he's not.

01:14:55I know what he is,

01:14:56I know what you are.

01:14:58Keep it going.

01:15:00Don't fizzle out

01:15:00on this girl.

01:15:02Stop this bloody thing.

01:15:04The Tribunal.

01:15:06Thursday,

01:15:07April the 11th,

01:15:071918.

01:15:10Stop the war.

01:15:12It need not go on

01:15:13unless the people

01:15:14choose.

01:15:16Across the channel,

01:15:17the cannon are booming.

01:15:18The armies opposing

01:15:19each other

01:15:20are too evenly matched

01:15:21for a decisive victory

01:15:22to be possible.

01:15:24Armies and navies

01:15:24cannot end this

01:15:25war.

01:15:26Who can end it?

01:15:29Only the people

01:15:30have the power.

01:15:32In all countries,

01:15:33the people must say

01:15:34we will not go on.

01:15:40I'm coming.

01:15:44Are you Samuel Street?

01:15:46I am.

01:15:46We're police officers.

01:15:48Do you print

01:15:48the Tribunal newspaper?

01:15:50I do.

01:15:50And did you print

01:15:51the issue for the 11th of April

01:15:52containing this page

01:15:53headed Stop the War?

01:15:54I did.

01:15:55Then stand aside

01:15:56and let us in.

01:15:57Why have you come?

01:15:58What are those carts for?

01:15:59I have instructions

01:16:00to break up your

01:16:01plant and machinery.

01:16:02I will see your warrant.

01:16:04Why don't you not

01:16:05start with a big one, sir?

01:16:06No, you mustn't.

01:16:07Some of the machinery

01:16:08is not mine,

01:16:09Mr. Donald.

01:16:09That is no concern

01:16:10of mine.

01:16:11We do all this

01:16:12because we ask for people.

01:16:14Put it all on the carts,

01:16:15everything in mind,

01:16:16types of books,

01:16:17invoices.

01:16:17Is this one of your

01:16:22social visits, Inspector?

01:16:23The days of social visits

01:16:24have gone, ladies.

01:16:25In that case,

01:16:25we'll want to look

01:16:26at your warrant.

01:16:27We are acting upon

01:16:27direct instructions

01:16:28from the Home Secretary.

01:16:29We need no warrant, ladies.

01:16:31Joan Beecham,

01:16:32are you the publisher

01:16:33of the tribunal?

01:16:34After all this time,

01:16:35you still ask me that.

01:16:36Just answer yes or no.

01:16:37In that case, yes.

01:16:38And were you responsible

01:16:39for the back page

01:16:40of issue 105

01:16:41published on April 11th?

01:16:43Yes.

01:16:43And who is the editor

01:16:45of the paper?

01:16:45What exactly is going on

01:16:46in Smith?

01:16:47Who is the editor?

01:16:47Hubert Peet is the editor.

01:16:49Oh, I doubt that very much.

01:16:51Mr. Peet has been in prison

01:16:52these last two years.

01:16:54So?

01:16:55I decline to tell you.

01:16:56Miss Smith,

01:16:57will you enlighten us?

01:16:58I will not.

01:16:59And how about you,

01:17:00Miss Hibbert?

01:17:00The consequences

01:17:01of refusing information

01:17:02can be severe.

01:17:03The sergeant's right.

01:17:04And at this very moment,

01:17:05colleagues of ours...

01:17:06That's enough, sergeant.

01:17:07Sir.

01:17:07Leave it, sergeant.

01:17:09What are colleagues of yours

01:17:10up to at this very moment?

01:17:11I shall ask you all

01:17:12once again.

01:17:14Who is the editor?

01:17:16And once again,

01:17:17we shall not reply.

01:17:18You can let the others

01:17:19in now then, sergeant.

01:17:20Yes, sir.

01:17:21In you come.

01:17:22You know what to do?

01:17:23Sir, sir.

01:17:24What do you hope to find?

01:17:26Oh, sergeant Robbins

01:17:27has it in his head

01:17:28that it is illegal

01:17:28to publish a newspaper

01:17:29without disclosing

01:17:31the name of the editor.

01:17:32He's also fixed

01:17:33with the notion

01:17:34that the unknown gentleman

01:17:35in question

01:17:36is trying to undermine

01:17:37the public's will

01:17:38to continue the war.

01:17:39Very patriotic,

01:17:40my sergeant.

01:17:41What makes you think

01:17:42our editor is a man?

01:17:43We just want his name

01:17:44and we'll trouble you

01:17:45no further.

01:17:46I think I've found something.

01:17:47Oh, over here then.

01:17:48What is it?

01:17:49It's a book.

01:17:50Oh, the sergeant's found a book.

01:17:52Very literary, my sergeant.

01:17:53It's called

01:17:54On Liberty.

01:17:54Now there's a title

01:17:56to conjure with.

01:17:58And who is the author

01:17:58of this town?

01:17:59John Stuart Mill.

01:18:01I was never a man

01:18:02to trust people

01:18:03who call themselves

01:18:04by three names.

01:18:06Who, ladies,

01:18:07is this thrice name,

01:18:08gentlemen?

01:18:10Am I to think

01:18:11by your silence

01:18:12that he is a member

01:18:12of your fellowship?

01:18:13You may think

01:18:14what you like.

01:18:14And that he may be

01:18:15something more

01:18:16than a mere member,

01:18:17like the editor

01:18:18of the tribunal,

01:18:19for example.

01:18:20Where may this gentleman

01:18:22be contacted?

01:18:23In either heaven

01:18:24or hell,

01:18:24I would imagine.

01:18:25He's been dead

01:18:26these last 40 years.

01:18:27Yes, sir,

01:18:28it says that here.

01:18:30I suppose this is all

01:18:31a big joke to you, ladies.

01:18:33Let's laugh

01:18:34at the ignorant Flatfoot.

01:18:35But I can assure you

01:18:36there is no joke at all.

01:18:37Whatever happens,

01:18:38we have made certain

01:18:39you will not print again.

01:18:44Is that you, sir?

01:18:46Yes, it's me.

01:18:48What sort of view

01:18:49do you get?

01:18:49Oh, not bad, sir.

01:18:50We're about level

01:18:51with their office,

01:18:51them windows over there.

01:18:53Anything been happening?

01:18:54Oh, very quiet, sir.

01:18:55Who's that going

01:18:56in the side entrance?

01:18:57Oh, the old woman

01:18:57with the baby.

01:18:58She comes quite often,

01:18:59but she's her friend

01:18:59of the caretakers,

01:19:00that's all.

01:19:01Look at this, Sergeant.

01:19:04The tribunal.

01:19:06So they've found a printer.

01:19:07Yes.

01:19:08Read the headline.

01:19:09Here we are again.

01:19:11Yes.

01:19:12Now, look,

01:19:12any whisper,

01:19:13any movement at all

01:19:15that tells you

01:19:15how they get their copy

01:19:16to which printer,

01:19:18and you broadcast it

01:19:19right back to me.

01:19:20Understood?

01:19:21You poor little thing.

01:19:27It can't be

01:19:28cracked, Lord.

01:19:29Don't you worry.

01:19:30There's nothing

01:19:30like good paper

01:19:31to keep him warm.

01:19:33Wrap it tightly

01:19:33so it don't show.

01:19:35I'll hold him

01:19:36while you do up the thing.

01:19:37Shush, shush,

01:19:38you noisy article.

01:19:39I don't know

01:19:40what to do

01:19:41about you,

01:19:41Mrs. Emery.

01:19:42Lovey,

01:19:43I should tell you

01:19:44that I was stopped

01:19:45by a copper

01:19:45just not far from the door.

01:19:47He asked me questions.

01:19:48You stuck to the story?

01:19:49Of course I did.

01:19:50Oh, well done.

01:19:51They've taken a room

01:19:52in your buildings

01:19:52across the Strand

01:19:53and they're watching everyone.

01:19:54Don't let it perturb you.

01:19:55Oh, it don't, Lovey.

01:19:57It's quite a game, really.

01:19:58On my way, then.

01:19:59Oh, here you go.

01:20:00There's a good boy.

01:20:01Good luck.

01:20:02Oh, Mrs. Emery gone?

01:20:10Yes.

01:20:11I want to tell her my news.

01:20:13Next time, perhaps.

01:20:14You off now?

01:20:16What's wrong?

01:20:18Oh, nothing.

01:20:20Tell me.

01:20:20I never thought

01:20:21it would come to this in England.

01:20:24That we should have to

01:20:24take such steps

01:20:25smuggling copy out

01:20:26in a baby's shawl

01:20:27in order to print a newspaper.

01:20:29Oh, Lydia,

01:20:30the important thing

01:20:30is we do get it printed.

01:20:32You know, the change in you

01:20:35is quite an inspiration.

01:20:38And Teddy is mine.

01:20:39I can't stop you

01:20:40visiting him today.

01:20:41Not with this pass.

01:20:43And since they've

01:20:43transferred him back

01:20:44to the prison,

01:20:44there must be

01:20:45some improvement.

01:20:47Let's hope it's universal.

01:20:50Are you aware of the time?

01:20:51To the minute.

01:20:52Then you'd better go.

01:20:54You nervous?

01:20:55A little.

01:20:58Oh, Lydia.

01:20:58Lydia.

01:20:59We have to win.

01:21:04Come on.

01:21:05Come on.

01:21:06Dougal, you'll be late.

01:21:07Yes.

01:21:08Go on.

01:21:11Excuse me.

01:21:12I've been waiting

01:21:13to see a prisoner.

01:21:14He hasn't come out yet.

01:21:15What's his name?

01:21:17Mayhew.

01:21:18I'll wait here a moment.

01:21:19I just want to...

01:21:20Wait, please.

01:21:25I have a pass.

01:21:26It's all arranged.

01:21:28Yes.

01:21:28Someone's coming down

01:21:29to have a word with you.

01:21:31What about?

01:21:32There won't be long.

01:21:40Mrs. Mayhew?

01:21:42I'm not his wife.

01:21:44He's not married.

01:21:44Oh, but you are a close friend.

01:21:47Yes.

01:21:48Sit down, please.

01:21:50In common with other,

01:21:52shall I say,

01:21:53political prisoners,

01:21:54Mayhew has been

01:21:56recently refusing food.

01:21:58Why?

01:22:00He's weak as it is.

01:22:02Yes, but presumably

01:22:03you understand that

01:22:05better than I.

01:22:07How long has he been doing this?

01:22:09Long enough for the doctors

01:22:10to decide that

01:22:11he should be fed

01:22:12by a nasal tube.

01:22:14They did that?

01:22:16It had to be done.

01:22:18But this morning,

01:22:20during the feeding,

01:22:22he inhaled

01:22:23some of the food

01:22:24into his lungs.

01:22:26What does that mean?

01:22:29He choked somewhat.

01:22:33And?

01:22:35And he's dead,

01:22:36young woman.

01:22:44We will know them,

01:22:47the cunning,

01:22:48hypocritical rascals

01:22:50who will do anything

01:22:51rather than serve the land

01:22:52which has given them

01:22:53birth and guidance.

01:22:55With sorrow and shame,

01:22:57we admit that they are

01:22:57to be found nowhere else

01:22:59in Europe than in England.

01:23:01Their idea of citizenship

01:23:02is to accept as a right

01:23:05whatever they can get

01:23:06in money or protection.

01:23:07The End

01:23:20Hello, darling.

01:23:24You gonna dance with me?

01:23:26There's music,

01:23:27another bottle of gin.

01:23:28Please,

01:23:29no, thank you.

01:23:30Come on,

01:23:30give a little love.

01:23:31I miss you tonight.

01:23:33That's victory,

01:23:34that is.

01:23:35We've done for the abortion.

01:23:36That's a fact.

01:23:37Let go of my hand,

01:23:38please.

01:23:38I know.

01:23:39I've been there

01:23:39of a uniform at home.

01:23:41That's the proof of it.

01:23:42And this ribbon,

01:23:43this,

01:23:44that's the double proof of it.

01:23:46You're very pretty.

01:23:48That's a nice head

01:23:48of hair on you, girl.

01:23:50Hey, come on.

01:23:50Come on,

01:23:51let you dance with me.

01:23:52You can't dance

01:23:52and hold your bottle

01:23:53at the same time.

01:23:54I'm not giving this bottle

01:23:56to nobody.

01:23:57At least wise,

01:23:57I might to you.

01:23:58You've got a nice face.

01:24:00Have a drink.

01:24:01No, no.

01:24:02Oh, you can have a drink on me

01:24:03if you'll come down

01:24:04to Jafraudy Square.

01:24:05I'm seeing some money.

01:24:07Well, if you're missing

01:24:08your friends.

01:24:09If you see an officer,

01:24:10then tell me quicker.

01:24:12Drinking's a punishable

01:24:13offence, idiot.

01:24:14You're not in uniform now,

01:24:15so who's to bother?

01:24:16Oh, look,

01:24:16I meant to be.

01:24:18I'd forgotten, you know.

01:24:19I'd forgotten.

01:24:21Hey, who's,

01:24:21who's his cop then?

01:24:22What's he about?

01:24:23That's Miss Hebert,

01:24:24isn't it?

01:24:24Molly Hebert.

01:24:25Is that your name?

01:24:27Molly?

01:24:27I like that.

01:24:29Molly.

01:24:30Are you still there, Sergeant?

01:24:32Will you people

01:24:32ever stop following us?

01:24:34I'm just wondering

01:24:34where you're walking to,

01:24:35so purposeful on this,

01:24:36on this night.

01:24:37Walking, Sergeant.

01:24:39Just walking.

01:24:41He's not walking

01:24:42with you, is he?

01:24:43Where's the old woman

01:24:44and the child this week?

01:24:45Oh, so you've found out

01:24:46about that, have you?

01:24:48I hope you get a medal for us.

01:24:49Oh, if it's medals you want.

01:24:50It's just for me.

01:24:51No, no.

01:24:52If it's medals.

01:24:52I want medals.

01:24:53I'm not staying

01:24:54for him or for me.

01:24:56So you are going somewhere

01:24:57like delivering

01:24:58the tribunal

01:24:58to the printers?

01:24:59Yes, I am.

01:25:01I'm taking these pages,

01:25:03packed with all those

01:25:04subversive thoughts

01:25:05that have them

01:25:05set down

01:25:06on a broken

01:25:07old hamstring.

01:25:09But if you're so keen,

01:25:10you have to

01:25:11take them.

01:25:12Go on.

01:25:13The inspector will like that.

01:25:15He'll be so pleased.

01:25:16He'll give you

01:25:16another stripe.

01:25:17Already a sergeant?

01:25:18Well, poor stripes

01:25:19and you'd be unique.

01:25:20Hey, you drop your bottle

01:25:22if you're not careful.

01:25:24No, I shan drop it.

01:25:26One arm's enough

01:25:26holding a bottle.

01:25:28One arm!

01:25:30See!

01:25:32Please.

01:25:34Please, please don't cry.

01:25:36Leave off me.

01:25:37Don't touch me.

01:25:39I will dance with you

01:25:40if you like.

01:25:43Please, I didn't mean

01:25:44to upset you.

01:25:45Let's dance.

01:25:46No, you don't want to.

01:25:47I do want to.

01:25:49Leave me.

01:25:49I want to dance

01:25:50with a bastard

01:25:51who cut off my arm.

01:25:53Come on, Mr.

01:25:54Come on, Mr.

01:25:55Where's the reason

01:25:56for the bloody war

01:25:57in the first place?

01:25:58Let it be, mate.

01:26:00My man worked

01:26:01for a German

01:26:01damn bricklay.

01:26:02The grossest he was.

01:26:04A good sword

01:26:05and they burnt his shop.

01:26:06They put him

01:26:07in prison as well.

01:26:09Where's my own?

01:26:11Where's my bloody own?

01:26:15Sergeant,

01:26:15you're going to be

01:26:16my shadow.

01:26:17The war is over.

01:26:19We have our orders.

01:26:20Then take the copy.

01:26:22Take it.

01:26:22No, I don't want it.

01:26:23You astound me.

01:26:24What do you want?

01:26:25I thought about your friend

01:26:27and I just wanted

01:26:27to say I was sorry.

01:26:29Don't you think it a pity

01:26:30that someone wasn't

01:26:31sorry a bit earlier?

01:26:33I don't need

01:26:34your regrets, Sergeant.

01:26:35Where are you going?

01:26:37I'm going to dance

01:26:38with a drunk,

01:26:39one-armed soldier.

01:26:41I danced.

01:27:05I danced.

01:27:07I even had a drink.

01:27:08it was impossible for the sergeant to keep an eye on me

01:27:11and I lost him somewhere in the crowds near Westminster Bridge

01:27:14he didn't find the hand press

01:27:17and the tribunal came out yet again

01:27:19Teddy's death had earned him a half inch in the paper

01:27:24but in fairness they could give him no more than that

01:27:27for he was only one of 74 conscientious objectors

01:27:31who died in prison or at the hands of the military

01:27:34we continued to publish as best we could

01:27:37until long after the war

01:27:38when eventually they found a way of putting Joan in Holloway

01:27:41the prison where Teddy was still stands out

01:27:44through the bare branches of the trees

01:27:46the winter landscape in the park

01:27:49is peopled with blank faced young men

01:27:52some still in uniform

01:27:54some without a leg or part of their face

01:27:58who sit on those benches and stare

01:28:02into nothing

01:28:06in We Will Know Them by Gordon Maccarrow

01:28:15the part of Molly was played by Francesca Annis

01:28:19and Teddy by Richard Derrington

01:28:21Lydia was Fiona Walker

01:28:24Joan, Caroline Mortimer

01:28:26Catherine, Pauline Letts

01:28:29Molly's mother, Hilda Kreisman

01:28:31and Molly's father, Michael Spice

01:28:34Mr. Street was Sean Probert

01:28:38Clifford Allen, David McAllister

01:28:40Inspector Cole, Ronald Herdman

01:28:43the landlord, Alexander John

01:28:46the army captain, Andrew Seacom

01:28:48the policeman, John Webb

01:28:51the major, Roger Hammond

01:28:53and the librarian, Spencer Banks

01:28:56the voice of the press was Danny Schiller

01:29:00other parts were played by Diana Bishop

01:29:04Judy Franklin, John Livesey

01:29:06and Teresa Stretfield

01:29:08the play was directed by Penny Gold

01:29:12the play was directed by Penny Gold

01:29:12to Philip

01:29:13no

01:29:15the

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