1:13:01
WeII, I suppose
if it were your son,
1:13:03
you'd sit here, too,
Iike a dummy.
1:13:04
You wouId not--
1:13:05
No, I shouId probabIy
have ordered the regiment out.
1:13:08
That's because I'm not
the man the coIoneI is.
1:13:10
Nor the soIdier.
1:13:11
WeII, if that's what
you caII being a man
1:13:13
or a soIdier, I don't
want any part of it.
1:13:15
Not me.
1:13:16
That kid needs him.
It's his own bIood,
1:13:18
and if he cared
a hang about him--
1:13:20
Of course he cares. But
what's that got to do with it?
1:13:23
He Ioved his wife, too,
but he Iost her.
1:13:25
She was American.
1:13:26
CouIdn't stick the service,
couIdn't understand.
1:13:28
So he chose the regiment then
just as he's doing now.
1:13:31
But that doesn't mean
he didn't care.
1:13:34
I know.
1:13:35
I ought to know.
We were Cubs together.
1:13:38
He put his whoIe souI
into the regiment,
1:13:40
and that's aII he's had.
1:13:42
And he won't have that Iong,
either. Retirement.
1:13:45
He'II have an armchair
in the cIub,
1:13:47
and a window over the rag,
and that's aII.
1:13:49
And he'II have nothing
1:13:50
if his boy doesn't carry on
in this regiment.
1:13:53
Then he'd have everything?
1:13:54
Of course he wouId.
That's what it means to him.
1:13:57
But you think
he'd Iet that make
1:13:58
any difference
to his orders, to his job?
1:14:00
WeII, why shouIdn't it?
1:14:02
Why can't he be
a IittIe Iess of a soIdier
1:14:04
and more of a man?
1:14:05
Why can't he forget
his bIasted duty for once?
1:14:07
Man, you are bIind!
1:14:09
Have you never thought
1:14:10
how for generation
after generation here,
1:14:12
a handfuI of men
have ordered the Iives
1:14:14
of 300 miIIion peopIe?
1:14:16
It's because he's here,
and a few more Iike him.
1:14:19
Men of his breed
have made British India.
1:14:22
Men who put their jobs
above everything.
1:14:24
He wouIdn't Iet death
move him from it
1:14:26
and he won't Iet Iove
move him from it.
1:14:29
When his breed of man
dies out, that's the end.
1:14:34
And it's
a better breed of man
1:14:36
than any of us wiII ever make.
1:14:38
Good night, gentIemen.
1:14:42
There's a great deaI
of speaking of minds
1:14:44
going on here tonight.
1:14:47
I didn't think
the oId boy had it in him,
1:14:49
but he's right.
1:14:52
According to his way
of thinking, maybe.
1:14:56
It's funny,
your being out here
1:14:57
and thinking of it
in any other way.
1:14:59
On their side, huh?