depiction of the German government "not being in the best interests of the country". It was not granted a license until 1940 following the end of appeasement. Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer, then Lord Chamberlain, consulted the Foreign Office regularly and sometimes the German Embassy. In the latter case, the submissions were intended to be read by a "friendly German".

By the 1960s, there were many playwrights and producers