Tomorrow.
Who are you?
By what right do you keep my passport?
Never mind who l am. We're making sure who you are.
Call the American Embassy. Ask for Leslie Slote, the political secretary.
That shouldn't take that long.
Thank God you're back! What happened?
They confiscated my passport until tomorrow.
Let's get out of here.
- Who confiscated your passport? - Those army officers.
- He hasn't the right. - He's got the guns.
What are you gonna do without it?
l'll say l lost it in a bombardment or something.
That's a terrible risk.
Well, that's a bad bunch back there. Ask Berel.
Oh, yeah, bad Polacks.
l came in too high.
A carrier deck is a damn small piece of real estate to land on, Warren.
Remember that. Otherwise, you did all right.
Do you think we should cancel the officers' dance tonight?
Because of Poland? What's it to us?
l bet your old man's having a hot time in Berlin right about now.
My father seldom has a ''hot time''.
Lieutenant Henry, you got a call from Washington.
lt's your father. You can reach him at this number.
Yep, Warren, they yanked me right back here.
Just for a few days, staying at the Army and Navy Club.
Mom's in Berlin. l'll be returning there.
Everything's just fine.
How you making out as a flyboy?
Well, l'm improving.
You know, Dad, it's really great to talk to you.
Where the deviI is MadeIine? There's no answer at Aunt Augusta's.
Madeline...
Madeline's in New York, Dad.
New York? Doing what?
WeII, she's working at CBS.
Hang on a minute, Warren.
Russ Carton. Hey, long time, no see.
Hello, Pug.
- Why aren't you in uniform? - Uniform?
Well, what did the State Department tell you?
Check in Army and Navy and wait.
Oh, snafu, as usual.
You're due to see the president in 20 minutes. My car's downstairs.
Come on in. l'm on the phone.
Warren, l'll have to call you back. Right.
Byron Henry and Natalie Jastrow to see Mr. Slote.
You'll see Araleh in ltaly, huh?
Araleh?
Dr. Aaron Jastrow. We call him ''Araleh''.
Sure. Of course we will.
Will you please tell him Berel say ''Lekh Lekha''?
Two simple words in Hebrew. Lekh Lekha. Remember.
Lekh Lekha.
That means ''get out''.
Yes, ''go out''.
l must go now.
l have to go to find my wife and daughter.
God watch you.
- Be careful. - Bye.
My God, am l glad to see you two!
Come on in here. lt's all right. Let them in. Come on in.
- Hello, Jastrow. - Hello.
Without your passport?
You're lucky you weren't picked up and shot.
Shot at again, you mean.
l'll cable your father via Stockholm.
He'll let Aaron know that Natalie's all right.
Oh, l'm dying for a bath.
Use my apartment.
l've moved in here. The senior personnel left for Stockholm.
- l got elected to remain in charge. - Can l take Byron with me?
My mother might object.
For crying out loud, Byron,
with all the running in and out of bushes we've been doing together.
He's like a kid brother, sort of.
Don't you believe it. l'm really a hot-blooded beast.
Maybe l can find a YMCA.
Suit yourselves.
How do we get out of Poland, Les?
Who knows? Radio Stockholm has announced
the Wehrmacht will surround the city within a week.
Hitler's announced if the Poles don't surrender then, Warsaw'll be leveled.
Fortunately, the Swedish ambassador is negotiating a safe-conduct out
for all the neutrals, through German lines.
That's how we'll get out.
l hope.
l can't understand it, Russ. What could he want with me?
You'll find out soon enough.
- You know he chewed me out once? - The president?
He was assistant secretary of the Navy then. l was an ensign.
He was sailing to Europe aboard my destroyer, summer of 1918.
l was hosing myself down after a workout.
He came bounding out. A very athletic man. Very snappy dresser.
Well, l drenched his brand-new outfit from head to toe.
lt wasn't funny.
Well, he's had a lot on his mind since 1918. Here we are.
Commander Henry to see the president.
He's expecting you. l'll tell him you're here.
Hello there, commander.
Glad to see you.
Drop your bonnet on the desk. Have a chair.
Oh, by the way, this is the secretary of commerce, Harry Hopkins.
Sir.
- How about some breakfast? - No, thank you, sir. l've already eaten.
Well, Pug. Have you learned yet how to hold on to a saltwater hose at sea?
Oh, God, sir. l've heard about your memory, but...
Harry, this young fellow
ruined the best blue serge blazer and straw hat l ever owned.
Now that l'm commander in chief,
what have you got to say for yourself?
''The quality of mercy is mightiest in the mightiest.''
Oh, very good. Quick thinking.
l'm a Shakespeare lover myself. You're forgiven.
About your report to Admiral Preble
on the low combat readiness of Germany.
You wrote it before the Germans launched
this new form of warfare, of course. This blitzkrieg, as the press is calling it.
You couldn't foresee that, could you?
l stand by my report, sir.
Then how is it they're blitzing Poland so easily?
A country with two and a half million men under arms?
Surprise, concentration of force, better political leadership,
better leadership in the field, better training, a sound war plan.
Plus, a lot of interior rot and confusion behind the Polish lines.
Well-put.
Also...
Go on.
The British and French are sitting on their duffs
through the greatest strategic opportunity ever.
You can't win the game without getting on the field.
- l'm stepping way out of line... - You're not.
You suppose he'll offer peace when he finishes with Poland
- if he's all that unprepared? - Why not? lt might just work.
You don't know the British.
How well do you know the Germans?
Well, they're a hard people to know.
There's only one thing we have to know about the Germans.
- What's that? - How to lick them.
A warmonger, eh?
- Are you suggesting we get into it? - Negative, sir, in the strongest way.
Unless we have to.
Oh, we'll have to.
How did you foresee that he'd make a pact with Stalin?
People here were stupefied.
Mathematical. Somebody had to make a wild guess.
- lt just happened to be me. - No, that was an astute report.
We had advance intelligence here. lt just wasn't believed.
That's usually the catch with intelligence.
What's Hitler really like? Have you met him?
Only to shake hands.
Well, Pug, thanks.
You know, l liked that report.
Touches like the submarine base emptying out at 5:00.
That spoke volumes.
Gave me a feel about what was going on over there. That's important.
You have a knack.
How about dropping me a line now and then?
Just anything that strikes you as significant or interesting.
But not through channels, mind.
l get enough official reports, Lord knows.
Aye, sir.
Goodbye, commander.
Sir. Mr. President.
Russ.
Well, do l go straight back to Berlin, or what?
- Unless you've got business here. - l do.
The point of this meeting, for which l crossed the Atlantic,
is that l'm to send him some Berlin chitchat direct,
as the spirit moves me.
Bypassing the chain of command, if l understood him.
You understood him.
- Slightly nonregulation. - He's the boss man.
Commander Henry? State sent that over for you.
l must bathe or l'll go mad. l can't stand myself anymore.
Slote's rooms all smell like an old library.
Let's get cleaned up.
Then you'd better find a hospital and get your head examined.
Come here.
You sweet fool, risking your neck to protect some dopey Jews.
Hadn't you better put another bandage on?
lt's gonna be OK.
My God, how young you are.
l keep forgetting.
l flunked out of graduate school. lsn't that mature enough for you?
Leave, please.
My God, what now?
- You think they're coming this way? - l don't know.
Let's just stay inside here and relax.
lt'll probably be over in a minute.
- You want a cigarette? - No, thank you.
lt's like a summer storm coming towards us. l never pictured it like this.
Don't you think we'd better go to the cellar?
No, stay right here. We're better off.
Just take it easy. lt's gonna be over soon.
lt's OK.
They're going away.
l told you it'd be all right.
Those German bastards. My God, Byron, look.
Can't we help? Can't we do something?
They probably got volunteer squads. Nursing, cleanup, like that.
l'll check it out.
l can't watch it anymore.
l'm sorry l got you into this, Byron.
Don't worry. l'm having a good time. This is fun.
Fun?! There must be hundreds of people dead or dying from this raid.
- Did you see the kids they pulled out? - Yeah, l saw them.
Look, all l meant was...
l don't think l'm gonna be killed, and this is the most exciting time in my life.
How stupid and callous can you be?
Slote thinks that l'm screwy, but you are really peculiar.
I'm gonna meet ya 'round The corner 'bout a quarter past four
She's gonna meet me 'round The corner about a quarter past four
You really like this tommyrot?
Well, Dad, he's the biggest comedian in radio.
He makes 15,000 a week.
That's obscene right there.
That's more than a rear admiral makes in a year.
Well, millions of people love him.
Does nature need a gentle push?
For that great regular feeling, try Feen-O-Lax, the gentle candy coaxer.
You fell out of the sky. How'd you track me down?
l called Warren in Pensacola.
Oh, how is he?
- He says he's got a girl. - Yeah?
Now this one sounds serious.
She's the daughter of that isolationist congressman.
From Florida, lke Lacouture.
You know what? l think Hugh should be taking a break about now.
l'm sorry you want her to go back to school.
The girl is 19.
She's better than women of 30 who've worked for me. Reliable, energetic.
l wish she'd show some of these ''4.0'' qualities in school.
l loathe school.
Say, how about coming on our show as a guest, commander?
l'm nobody.
Mr. Cleveland, 15 minutes.
You're the attaché in Berlin.
You could strike a blow for a two-ocean Navy, like Preble.
Not on your life.
Well, no harm in asking, l hope.
Well, it's been nice meeting you, commander.
And if you change your mind, we'd love to have you, sir.
Phil has the final script.
Energetic.
ls he married?
He has a wife and three children.
When does school start?
Oh, Dad, l'd be so miserable.
l feel like l've joined the Navy. And l want to stay in.
What attracts you to this flimsy business?
lt's the furthest thing from your mother's interests or mine.
What about the time Mom spent that summer traveling in a musical show?
- Did she ever tell you about that? - She was 1 7. lt was an escapade.
Was it?
You know, a couple of years ago, in our old Nags Head house,
when she and l were in the attic,
Mom came across the old parasol she used in her dance solo.
Right there in the attic she kicked off her shoes,
she opened the parasol, she picked up her skirt
and she did the whole dance for me.
And then she sang a song, ''Ching-ching-challa-wa China Girl''.
Mom's a frustrated actress, that's what.
''Ching-ching-challa-wa China Girl''.
She did that dance for me too, Madeline.
Long, long ago.
Oh, Dad, please let me stay and work.
When l get to Berlin, l'll discuss it.
With ''Ching-ching-challa-wa China Girl''.
Thanks.
Ching-ching-chaIIa-wa China girI
There can be no finer girI
What does ''chinga-Iing chaIIa-wa''mean?
It means that I Iove
You
- You should have been an actress. - Oh, it is just a faded dream.
Great heavens, 2:00 in the morning. l don't know where the time has gone.
Oh, Rhoda, l can't tell you how you cheer me.
The opera, the boat ride, the ballet this evening.
lt's all been so grand, so nice.
Well...Pug doesn't have the time for such things
or the inclination.
lt's been my week to howl.
He's due back Friday?
That's what the cable says.
Well, that should make you happy.
Ecstatic.
l miss him.
Well, it looks like Poland may be finished by then.
And has your visit been a success?
So-so, so-so.
Except for getting to know you.
And Commander Henry.
Good night, Palmer.
Good night, Rhoda.
Come, l'll walk you to the door.
Warsaw is surrounded.
We are entitled to a glass of cognac.
And still the French have not moved.
That calls for cognac.
What ails the French?
With more tanks than we have in Poland,
with 100 infantry divisions facing a paper-thin screen,
a tremendous air umbrella in the RAF and their own air force.
The will isn't there.
lt will go down as a miracle.
A historic military miracle.
Now it's too late for them.
He foresaw that.
He's a political genius.
l gave orders not to be disturbed.
General von Roon.
What?
Would you repeat that, please?
Our military attaché from Moscow. The Russians are on the move.
Yes.
Against whom?
Yes. Yes.
- Against whom? - l see.
Thank you.
The Fuehrer gave the eastern half of Poland to the Soviets
in a secret protocol of the pact.
Our troops are approaching the dividing line.
The Russians are jumping in to grab their share.
What pretext are they giving?
Due to the collapse of the Polish government,
they are moving to protect the Ukrainian nationals.
Hyenas!
Ribbentrop is coming, on his train, no doubt.
He'll give us the final lines of the protocol in the morning.
The Russian military attaché will come with him
to confirm them and prevent troop clashes.
We will have to withdraw from the oil fields around Drogobyc.
That is now in the Soviet area.
We shed German blood for those oil fields.
We are finally learning the price of that pact.
The Russians will now be 200 kilometers nearer to Berlin.
More important,
we shall be 200 kilometers further away from Moscow.
lt's broad daylight out. Do you wanna open those curtains?
- ls there anything going on out there? - No, nothing unusual.
OK, let's have some daylight.
Such smoke.
Are there really that many fires?
God, yes. The sky was great this morning until dawn came up.
All red and smoky, like Dante's Inferno.
What about the water, Byron?
Me and Gunga Din.
''You may talk of gin and beer when you're quartered safe out here.''
How did you haul it back? Did you manage to find gasoline?
You can forget about the truck. l think gasoline's finished in this town.
l just scrounged around till l found a horse and a cart.
Where's Natalie? The hospital?
Yeah. l'd appreciate it if you'd go over there and bring her back right away.
Listen.
The Russians have crossed the Polish border.
They're marching in this direction.
Things are looking grim for Warsaw.
The Swedish ambassador has worked out the evacuation of neutrals.
But l have to have my people prepared to move.
l'll go get her.
Byron, l have to visit this safe-conduct exit route
in the morning with the ambassador.
You might come along.
Yeah, sure.
l can't leave now. l just came on duty.
Will you listen to him? For once he happens to be right.
l don't want to hear about it anymore, Byron.
This is the only maternity ward left in Warsaw.
The Germans bombed St. Catherine's. lt was horrible.
Everywhere, pregnant women running around on fire, their babies burning!
The Russians are on their way.
They're hundreds of miles away. l've got to stay here.
They need me. lf you want to go, go ahead.
lf the neutrals leave, we go with them.
Natalie, l hear what you're saying. The young man is right.
You have to go with your people.
We don't even know if they're going. lf they do go, he can fetch me.
You can't take that risk.
You are Jewish.
That woman over there is hemorrhaging.
She will be attended to. Go.
You have helped us. Thank you. Go.
Leslie Slote is nothing but a selfish bastard.
All he wants is one less thing to think about.
Still having fun, Byron?
Yeah, more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
The ambassador's here.
- Slote will let you go with us. - l think you're both crazy.
Why go near Germans when you don't have to?
Of course we're crazy, Mark. Why else would we be here? Come on.
How do we know this route is open? Do we have an alternate route?
My dear, we may go rather close to the front.
l've heard guns before.
Very well, let us go then. Please.
lt's amazing that this bridge still stands.
German marksmanship is not as devastating as they claim.
- Where are those soldiers going? - They're returning from the front.
They come home for lunch or dinner, or to sleep with their wives,
then they ride back and shoot at the Germans.
- How far do we go? - A few miles.
We look for advance headquarters, near an old church.
My God!
God Almighty!
Maybe we made a wrong turn. We're behind German lines.
Hardly. l don't believe we have come more than three miles from the bridge.
Stop this car.
These young people are my responsibility.
l had no idea that we'd endanger them in this way.
We must take these civilians back to Warsaw.
Colonel Rakowsky is expecting us at this moment.
The cease-fire will probably come at 2:00.
- We must go back. - l'm afraid there isn't time.
l have to view the route. So must you, in case our parties get separated.
Just a minute.
l insist that you at least take us back to the bridge first.
From there, we can hitch a ride on a bus or a truck.
Clearly, we are not behind the German lines.
Look, we are perfectly fine. Let's go on.
Natalie, Leslie's right.
He has a responsibility. Let's get out here.
We'll wait for you in one of those cabins.
Great idea.
We'll wait in this one right here. l saw a woman in the doorway.
My dear, please do as you are told.
lf l rode along with you, l could have a look
at the layout for the American party.
Excellent. See you shortly.
Come on, let's get inside. Quick.
And it was just a few hundred meters down the road.
He says that the best view is from that tower. l must make a sketch.
lt's important that the refugees don't head for the wrong church.
l can draw a map. Why don't you let me climb up there.
The colonel says that the tower has been drawing quite a lot of fire.
That's OK.
Hi.
lt's OK?
l have to sketch a map.
Speak English?
OK.
Hey, Mark!
Mark Hartley!
Hey, Mark, come on. We're leaving.
What's the matter?
Are you OK?
Byron, l've never been so scared in my life.
You don't know what l'm talking about, do you?
OK.
l'm gonna tell you something.
My name isn't really Hartley, you see.
lt's Marvin Horowitz. Horowitz, from Brooklyn.
So? How is anybody going to find out about that?
Well, l thought that President Roosevelt
was gonna send us out on Army planes,
but we're going to the Germans, Byron. Germans.
l don't think l can handle that.
What are you doing?
Stick that in your bag.
Make a good Christian out of you.
- Come on, we're pulling out. - Thanks, Byron.
He's coming. He's really scared, but he's coming. How are you?
What can they do? l have an American passport. They don't know l'm a Jew.
Don't go getting brave and defiant. Let's just get the hell out of here.
l'm not an imbecile, Byron. Come on, let's go.
- Natalie... - Natalie?
You might find it more comfortable with us in the embassy car.
Whoever copied my map did a pretty good job.
Two o'clock, right on the button.
PIease keep together. Do not make wrong turns.
It is an easy hour's waIk, even for oId persons.
The enemy wiII undoubtedIy recommence hostiIities at 3,
and we wiII return the heaviest fire. Therefore, pIease hurry.
Good Iuck to you aII. Long Iive freedom. Long Iive PoIand.
- You OK? - Yeah, yeah.
Here's our church.
Germans.
- Are you afraid? - Not anymore. Now that it's happened,
- l don't know, it's kind of like a dream. - Right, some dream, Natalie.
My name is Mark Hartley, and oy, am l a good Christian!
- Graham. - Graham, yes. Thank you.
- Graham. - Graham and Graham. Thank you.
- Oh, this is Jeff... Yes. - Grant.
All right.
Look at Slote, taking a cigarette from a German,
for crying out loud, and laughing.
Oh, my God, l think he's bringing him over here.
Your chargé tells me your father is American Naval attaché in Berlin.
- Yes, sir, he is. - l'm a Berliner.
My father is in the foreign ministry.
l believe l had the pleasure of meeting your parents at the Belgium Embassy
and dancing with your mother. What have you been doing in Warsaw?
Oh, sightseeing.
- Ernst Bayer. - Byron Henry. Hi.
- Where do we go from here? - Klovno.
There you transfer to a train for Königsberg.
From there, the neutrals choose to either go to Stockholm or Berlin.
lt's a three-hour drive.
There's still room in the embassy car if you're interested.
Bad business. The Polish government is completely irresponsible.
Warsaw should've been declared an open city weeks ago.
This destruction is pointless.
ln any event, it should be over in a day or two.
You never know. lt could take a lot longer than that.
You think so?
Nice to have met you, Mr. Henry.
Why the hell did you get him angry?
Blaming the Polish government for this siege!
One minute after 3.
- Poor Warsaw. - Please don't talk.
Don't say anything. Let's just get on the truck. Come on.
Slote said Stockholm or Berlin, huh?
- l'd like to see Berlin, myself. - Are you crazy, Natalie?
What, are you absolutely crazy?
You just go to Stockholm, baby. Just pray they let you go to Stockholm.
You know something, Byron? This woman definitely has a screw loose.
Berel's message goes for you too. Lekh Lekha.
Oh, for God's sakes, would you stop with the Hebrew, please?
OK, who wants some of this?
Listen, everybody, please.
Those are the S.S.
l'll do any talking that has to be done.
You have a gentleman named Byron Henry in your party?
Your father represents the American Navy in Berlin?
This message is forwarded to you via our foreign ministry.
Your parties' passports, may l have them, please?
- l am reluctant to surrender them. - l assure you it's quite routine.
They will be returned to you in Königsberg.
Thank you. Now your roster, please.
You have no Negroes in your party. How many Jews?
We make no record of religious affiliation.
But you do have Jews.
Even if there were Jews in this party, l have to decline to answer.
My government's policy is one of absolute equality of treatment.
Who are these Jews, please?
l just don't know if there are any Jews.
My government's policy is simply to maintain separate records for Jews.
l wasn't interested, you see? So l never asked.
l'm instructed to separate out the Jews.
Form a double line, please, alphabetically.
No.
You are in the custody of the Wehrmacht in a combat zone.
Under strict martial law. l call this to your attention.
For your purposes, you can assume that we're all Jews.
Now, just a minute! What on earth do you mean by that?
l'm not a Jew. l don't want to be classified or treated as one.
We will all be treated alike, Clara. That's all.
- Please cooperate. - Oh, no. No, you don't.
Nobody's putting me down for any Jew.
Sorry, Leslie, l'm just not buying it.
- What is your name, madam? - Clara Young. Chicago, lllinois.
l'm not Jewish. You can be damn sure of that.
Would you be kind enough to point out the Jews in your party?
No. Thank you, mister.
That's your business, not mine.
- What is your name? - Tom Stanley.
Now you know your party cannot board this train before l carry out my orders.
You seem to understand this matter much better than your chargé.
Who are the Jews here?
Well, l tell you, friend, l'd like to cooperate. l really would.
But as far as l know, there's not a one.
Not in this party.
You! Step forward!
Stay where you are.
l would like your name and rank. And l warn you,
continuing this will result in a written protest from my government.
There is no reason to protest.
The officials of the other governments are cooperating.
What is your name?
Hartley. Mark Hartley.
Hartley? l see.
And under what name were you born?
- Hartley. - Really?
And what were your parents?
Americans.
- Jews. - No.
Americans.
Mr. Hartley has been to church with me every Sunday in Warsaw.
He's a Methodist, the same as me.
l can vouch for that. l conducted the services.
Mark is a devout Christian.
l'm sure that a physical examination would show...
l would report that as a personal violence.
ln America, circumcision at birth is routine.
l'm circumcised.
So am l.
Now, hold it, sir. This is not a customs point.
There is no reason to search personal belongings.
What are you staring at?
You are very pretty.
Thank you.
Rather dark. Your ancestry?
ltalian.
Your name?
Mona Lisa.
l see.
Step forward!
She's my fiancée. Leave her alone.
Joachim!
Very well.
You love your Jews. Take them!
Gather all your possessions and we can board the train.
Make sure you have everything and hold the children.
Let's proceed right through.
Natalie, Byron, over here.
Thank God. Stockholm, here l come.
l think l may have lost all interest in Berlin.
- ls everyone OK? - Well, l am now.
Leslie, you were magnificent.
Sure was.
Mona Lisa.
You fool.
l love you.