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Scots journalist’s ‘war of the words’
A DEDICATED socialist and pacifist, Peter Ritchie Calder was one of the most unlikely people to head up part of a secret government wartime department.
The Scots-born journalist wrote with a left-wing tone when covering the London Blitz, words powerful enough to draw the attention from the higher echelons of the Churchill government. It didn’t take long before he was “kidnapped” by the government and transformed into one of the leading figures in its secretive propaganda unit known as the Political Warfare Executive. for more click here
