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Saturday, January 20th, 1945
After dinner there was a film in an air-ministry room on the ground floor in King Charles Street. The P.M. bid us all cast care aside and “not bother about Atler or Hitlee”, and so all the typists, drivers, servants, etc., saw first of all a first-class newsreel of the Luftwaffe attack on our airfields in Holland on New Year’s Day and then Bette Davis in Dark Victory, a brilliantly acted film and one of the few I have seen end as a tragedy.

Sunday, January 21st
Another film after dinner, a very good thriller about blackmail, Edward G. Robinson in The Woman in the Window. The P.M. said that Robinson “is just like Max [Beaverbrook]”.

Friday, February 23rd
After dinner we saw an amusing film: Bob Hope in The Princess and the Pirate.

Saturday, February 24th
[Czechoslovak President Edvard] Beneš said he head learned much during his six years in England, not least the truth of what President Masaryk had said to him in the last war, that America might be materially far more powerful than England but that England’s cultural dominance was supreme and unchallenged.

From diary of John Colville, Assistant Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.