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
SS Empire Miniver SS Empire Miniver The SS "Empire Miniver was a British steam merchant ship. She was originally an American merchant, launched in 1918 as SS "West Cobalt. During a brief stint in the United States Navy in 1919, she was known as USS "West Cobalt" (ID-3836). SS "West Cobalt" was built as a steam-powered cargo ship in 1918 for the United States Shipping Board (USSB). She was part of the "West" boats, a series of steel-hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States for the First World War war effort, and was the 11th ship built at