'Fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war. Nobody wants war.'
'The titanic- she sails next week'-'Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable'

1. How would the audience of 1946 have reacted to these statements made in a play set in 1912? What emotions would they have gone through and why?

2. How does Priestley use these quotations to discredit capitalism? How else does Priestley criticise capitalism in the play?