The Accountants and George Bernard Shaw

Abstract

The war left Britain strapped for cash, deeply in debt and increasingly unable to meet its international commitments. The winter of 1947 was one of the coldest in British history. Coal and fuel supplies had run critically low. There was little electricity and heat. Food rationing was worse than it had been during the war. Even bread was rationed. Nonetheless, throughout the winter Max and Ralph continued to play squash, sometimes with Anthony Quayle, and to have supper afterwards. Tony brought his fiancée Dorothy Hyson, and Margaret Leighton came. Max missed family life and Margaret took him home with her to Birmingham where her parents, her siblings (Hazel and John) and her grandmother lived under one roof. They all liked Max.