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Castorp: Dr. Junkers is in trouble.
Jiro Horikoshi: In trouble?
Castorp: He bites the hands that feeds him. And he will lose.
Jiro Horikoshi: He fights Mr. Hitler’s government?
Castorp: The Nazis are a gang of hoodlums.
[Waiter walks by]
Castorp: This is quite a good place! No mosquitoes. Not too hot. Good watercress. A good place to forget bad things, isn’t that right?
Jiro Horikoshi: Cigarette? I’m afraid they’re Japanese.
Castorp: Thank you. It is a nice night. Hier ist der Zauberberg.
Jiro Horikoshi: “The Magic Mountain”, Thomas Mann.
Castorp: Yes. A good place for forgetting. Make a war in China? Forget it. Make a puppet state in Manchuria? Forget it. Quit the League of Nations? Forget it. Make the world your enemy? Forget it. Japan will blow up. Germany will blow up, too.
Jiro Horikoshi: Do you think Germany will go to war again?
Castorp: Yes. They must be stopped.