An encounter exploring how people can fail to communicate even when they are talking by either not saying anything, not listening or simply evading.

When Franz presides over the German League, Bismatrck arrives late with a great Dane, a statue of the emperor it urinated on and the claim that his Prussian king should take over the presidency. Franz feels that's a casus belli, but realizes he can't win a war, whoever starts it, without a much stronger army, which cos…