The
Chequers Manoeuvre
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The PM likes to
go there, plans are made to assassinate him en route.
“Assassination is
the sincerest form of flattery.”
The Ministry of
Defence has Special Services Section (SSS) for that.
“Just suppose the
Channel Tunnel were built, how would you go about flooding it?”
The similarities
to Executive Action (dir. David Miller) and The Domino Principle
(dir. Stanley Kramer) are striking, though the main basis is the attempt on De
Gaulle in 1962 at Petit-Clamart.