Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein would help the new Allies, Britain and America, to understand each other. He read and advised on early drafts of "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), the film starring Greer Garson as the heroic mother of a wartorn British family, which MGM made after a meeting of MGM executives with Bernstein in Hollywood. As the invasion of France loomed, Bernstein brought his friend Alfred Hitchcock back from Hollywood to Britain to work on two short documentary films for the post-invasion French audience. As the war wound to its close, Bernstein heard the first reports of extermination camps, visited Belsen himself, and was determined
Mrs. Miniver's problem Mrs. Miniver's problem Mrs. Miniver's problem is a geometry problem about circles. Given a circle "A", find a circle "B" such that the area of the lens formed by intersecting their two interiors is equal to the area of the symmetric difference of "A" and "B" (the sum of the areas contained in one but not both circles). The problem derives from "A Country House Visit", one of Jan Struther's newspaper articles featuring her character Mrs. Miniver. According to the story: She saw every relationship as a pair of intersecting circles. It would seem at first glance that the more