Jubal shook his head in negation and spoke to the screen. "Mr. Secretary, while we quibble, time is running out.  Even now your men - your S.S. hooligans - are breaking into my house.  It is most distasteful to be under siege in my own home.  Now, for the first and last time, will you abate this nuisance?  So that we can negotiate peaceably and equitably?  Or shall we fight it out in the High Court with all the stink and scandal that would ensue?"