:15:01
This is more than I bargained for.
:15:03
I know. That's the trouble
with this sort of work.
:15:06
The simplest little thing
often leads to such complications.
:15:10
- When do you have to know?
- I take the plane to London tonight.
:15:13
The Americans take
over from here.
:15:15
Heavens, I'll have to rush.
:15:17
Don't become pro-Nazi
too fast, Erickson.
:15:20
Handle it slowly and subtly.
:15:26
I haven't said I'd do it yet.
:15:28
Oh, but I think you will.
:15:31
We have a most interesting recording
of you accepting our first proposition.
:15:35
Cheerio.
:15:39
There wasn't much choice now.
:15:41
It was either go along
or go to jail.
:15:45
The next night I invited
my closest friend, Max Gumpel,
:15:48
to have dinner
with my wife and me.
:15:50
If I could get by them, the chances
were I could convince others.
:15:54
I started by ranting about
the unfairness of the blacklist
:15:57
and then tried
my first anti-British remark.
:16:01
We like to feel that Sweden
is free and neutral, but she's not.
:16:07
I hate to say it,
but we're occupied
:16:09
just as surely
as Denmark and Norway.
:16:12
Not by German military.
:16:14
By Allied officials.
:16:16
Eric, I know how
angry you must be,
:16:19
but don't talk like that.
:16:21
Max.
:16:22
These men are determined
to capture us economically.
:16:26
Watch and see.
England will involve us in this.
:16:29
Ingrid was merely surprised,
but Max was hurt.
:16:32
I hated to do it to him,
but apparently he believed me,
:16:35
and that was the most
important thing.
:16:38
Now I began to drop remarks here
and there with associates and friends.
:16:42
Nothing too obvious at first.
:16:43
That Germany was
only trying to recover
:16:46
what had been stolen from
her at Versailles and Locarno.
:16:49
As months went by,
I kept hammering away
:16:51
at Churchill's treatment
of the French.
:16:54
I took my time
:16:55
but never lost an opportunity to drop
a little poison whenever I could.