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START: Glad you mentioned it, Eric. I’m coming to that. Just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two, or a few German officers have too much to drink and begin talking nonsense, you’ll hear some people that that war’s inevitable.
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END: There’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere--except of course in Russia, which will always be behindhand, naturally.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Priestley, J.B. An Inspector Calls and Other Plays. Penguin Modern Classics, London. 2000, pp. 165-6.
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