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Prime Minister: [to the House of Commons] Our first duty is to the mother country, England.
Members: Hear, hear!
Prime Minister: I would not trade the meanest English county for all our colonial possessions!
Members: Hear, hear!
Prime Minister: I would not trade the meanest English county for all our colonial possessions!
Full Transcript
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Our first duty is to the mother country
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England
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I would not trade the meanest English county
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for all our colonial possessions
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Movie Summary
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
