Tomorrow, the World! (1944)

Betty Field: Leona Richards

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• Leona Richards : If the Führer is so generous, why does he give you only one suit and one uniform?

  Emil Bruckner : That is common knowledge. It is the Treaty of Versailles!

• Leona Richards : Why did you write those obscene things about me on the sidewalk?

• Mike Frame : What happened? Come on tell me.

  Leona Richards : Oh, Mike, it's too long and too ugly. The point is he made me lose my temper. That's a confession of failure.

• Mike Frame : He's just a child. You've handled problem children before.

  Leona Richards : Plenty of them and I could always get to the root of the problem: malnutrition, a drunken father, or a neurotic mother. But, Emil isn't the case of maladjustment. He's perfectly adjusted to a Nazi society. He's been taught contempt for people who don't use force and he'll go on pushing us around until we give him the one answer he understands: a licking!

  Mike Frame : Le, you're the last person in the world I ever thought...

  Leona Richards : I know, we don't beat children. It's outdated. But, I still say it's the only cure for Emil. Not in haste. Not in anger. A carefully planned licking.

  Mike Frame : So, we stop using our heads and get out the rubber hose.

  Leona Richards : I didn't say that. I said a deliberate, carefully planned licking. And if you won't do it, someone must.

• Leona Richards : Pat could be brave too. She could be a hero. She could sneak up behind you and hit you over the head. But, I don't think it would ever occur to her. Of course, she's not a member of the master race.