:04:01
- Not without organised labour.
- We got to feed the people.
:04:04
You can't keep a country
eating scraps out of garbage pails.
:04:07
I'm all for sending food,
only let 'em know where it's from.
:04:10
I object to dollar diplomacy.
:04:12
- But you don't mind sending food.
- There's a difference.
:04:16
If you give a hungry man bread,
that's democracy.
:04:18
If you leave the wrapper on, it's imperialism.
:04:21
Gentlemen, these are
very grave problems indeed
:04:25
but they don't happen to be
the problems of this committee.
:04:28
Perhaps I should remind you
why we were sent to Berlin,
:04:31
since our chairman,
Mr Pennecot of New Hampshire,
:04:34
has been indisposed ever since
we took off from Washington.
:04:38
We're here to investigate the morale
of American occupation troops,
:04:42
nothing else.
:04:44
12,000 of our boys are policing
that pest hole down below
:04:47
and according to reports, they are being
infected by a kind of moral malaria.
:04:53
It is our duty to their wives, their mothers,
their sisters, to find the facts.
:04:57
And if these reports are true,
:04:59
to fumigate that place with
all the insecticides at our disposal.
:05:03
If you'll pardon me,
we're approaching Tempelhof Airfield.
:05:09
Oh, God, if they haven't got
a reception out for us.
:05:12
A band and everything.
:05:14
They'll be glad to see home folks.
:05:25
Men, once more it is our honour and
privilege to welcome a visiting committee.
:05:30
Lately they seem to be coming
as regularly as the electric bill.
:05:35
This time it's not just VIPs.
:05:37
This time we're getting VIPIs.
:05:40
Very Important Persons Indeed.
:05:43
Some Congressional committee
to investigate our morale.
:05:47
Seems back home, they've got an idea
this here is one great big picnic,
:05:52
that all we do is swing in hammocks
with blonde Fräuleins,
:05:55
swap cigarettes for castles on the Rhine
:05:57
and soak our feet in sparkling Mosel.