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