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VOICE OF AMERICAN I should think that under close supervision and control these people can and should be able to learn to take major responsibility for measures of

birth control which would assure a population growth on a qualitative rather than a merely quantitative level.

INDIO See the Dutchman's nose twitch? He's not used to smelling Natives by the banks of the Kali.

VOICE OF DUTCHMAN Supervision? Ah, yes. I understand. But that is an American luxury, is it not so? Supervision is very expensive. We must get rid of the leaders.

INDIO They're coming to look at their pack of animals.

VOICE OF DUTCHMAN The trouble is, there are too many people here.

AMONG AUDIENCE

HAROLD Well I'll be damned! Where did you say those people were taken?

CECIL What people?

HAROLD The husband of that woman who died in the accident.

CECIL We had to send them to Indonesia to get the affair straightened out.

INDIO If he comes in here, he'll smell that bundle! What'll you say then, father?