Beeching cuts and the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester has increased significantly, and double track has now been reinstated on the Golden Valley Line. The Conservatives increased their Commons majority in the general election of 8 October 1959, their first with Harold Macmillan as prime minister, who famously said that most people "had never had it so good". Ernest Marples, previously the Postmaster General, was made Transport Minister two weeks later in a cabinet reshuffle; Marples was described by some as "cocky", "flash", "slick" and as a "construction tycoon", and Macmillan noted that the Northern working-class boy who had won a
So Ends Our Night So Ends Our Night So Ends Our Night is a 1941 drama starring Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan and Glenn Ford, and directed by John Cromwell. The screenplay was adapted by Talbot Jennings from the fourth novel "Flotsam" by the famous German exile, Erich Maria Remarque, who rose to international fame for his first novel, "All Quiet On The Western Front". Written and filmed in a 1940 America that was still primarily isolationist even as FDR began to meet with Winston Churchill, "So Ends Our Night" was one of the most explicitly anti-Nazi films to be made in the Hollywood studio