Carol for Another Christmas (1964 TV Movie)

Eva Marie Saint: Lt. Gibson

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• Daniel Grudge : The President of the United States found it necessary to drop that bomb because there would have been 500,000 American casualties and a couple a million Japanese dead had he not dropped it. Harsh as it may sound, in my book that makes simple arithmetic.

  Lt. Gibson : Commander, I wouldn't debate military planning with you. I'm just suggesting that we are standing in the middle of what was once a city, where on one given morning 100,000 people were killed. People, Commander. That's almost as many deaths as the Confederates had in four years of Civil War. Quite apart from anything else, sir. Doesn't that suggest to you that from this second on, if the world ever decided to go to war again, it could kill itself off in a couple of afternoons. Doesn't it suggest, sir, that maybe - maybe war is obsolete now. Just - just do me one favor, would you, please, Commander? Don't call it arithmetic any more.

• Lt. Gibson : The burn cases I saw were American sailors, Commander. They had been fighting an enemy. They weren't school children. The distinction is most subtle, sir, I'll give you that. But, by God, there is a difference.

• Lt. Gibson : "If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat. If he be thirsty, give him water to drink." Your enemy thanks you, Commander.