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Fact #182909

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The humourous revue Flying Colours opens at The Lyric Theatre in London, England, UK, Europe. Noel Coward's ironic song Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans, which had been rehearsed for the show and was printed in the program, is cut at the last moment because of a public furore, caused after listeners who didn't perceive the irony wrote to the BBC complaining that the song was pro-German. After the War, Coward will explain that he had written the song "as a satire directed against a small minority of excessive humanitarians who, in my opinion, were taking a rather too tolerant view of our enemies".