Beyond the Limit (1983)

Geoffrey Palmer: British Ambassador

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• Belfrage: British Ambassador : Well, I'm afraid the situation looks pretty bleak. The... Foreign Minister takes the view that it's a Paraguayan affair. The Paraguayans refuse to discuss the matter on the grounds that the President's on holiday, and Whitehall's position is that they won't be held to ransom by criminals.

  Dr. Eduardo Plarr : Surely, the Americans could help.

  Belfrage: British Ambassador : No, they are most unsympathetic, I'm afraid. Of course, if the ambassador hadn't taken against Fortnum so violently and insisted on driving himself, they'd have kindapped him, but he appears to be impervious to that line of reasoning.

  Dr. Eduardo Plarr : Is there nothing you can do, Sir Henry?

  Belfrage: British Ambassador : Alas, it's all... extremely ticklish. Apart from anything else the relations between us and the Argentinians are very shaky. It's not even as if the poor devil were any good at his job. All I ever hear about him is complaints.

  Dr. Eduardo Plarr : Complaints?

  Belfrage: British Ambassador : Yeah, that's right. Um, Fortnum's wife, that patient of yours, is um... undesirable. Curious, but in my experience, that word is only ever applied to woman who are quite the opposite... I'm doing all i can, you know. Really, I am. If he'd been a business tycoon, of course, things would have been quite different. Yeah, the trouble is... Fortnum's such a pitiably small bear.