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Wells was trying at that time to have him made a British citizen by act of Parliament and I think he was successful.

David Sarnoff had given me a letter to Joe Kennedy, who was then the Ambassador to Great Britan, and I went to see him. He asked me to go to the ballet the night of July 6th, and we went to a marvelous ballet of “Cinderella,” after which we went to a great ball at Holland House for a debut of Rosalind Cubit, whom I didn't know at all, but I was asked to go with Audrey Bouverie and her husband. Audrey wasn't there because she was ill. It was the only private party the King and Queen of England appeared at during the season so there were huge crowds, and the house was enormous with about 70 or 80 acres around. It was the house of Walpole, and at that time it belonged to Lord Ilchester. Horace Walpole had lived in it and there was a huge Walpole library.

If the house had been bombed that night instead of a few years later, which it was, most of the English leaders, including Churchill, would have been killed. Churchill was there. I was standing on the stairs with my host, Peter Bouverie, and he turned to introduce me to Mrs. Churchill and didn't introduce me to Mr. Churchill; he turned away and said, “I can't introduce you to Winston, he's too drunk.”

The party was brilliantly picturesque. The Queen looked a dream of prettiness, with marvelous jewels. I remember the Duchess of Sutherland and the Maharaja of Jaipur looked very handsome as they came in with her and the King. All the women