Word: caldecott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...propaganda, and Lord Pontypool, a vulgarian press lord, whose horrible career is clearly based on that of megalomaniac Lord Northcliffe, creator of Britain's all-too-popular press. But the chief villain is one who usually appears as a fictional hero-the sensitive leftwing intellectual. Tony Caldecott had been the editor of a Quaker-financed liberal weekly and survives the war with a combat-won Military Cross and consciousness of a desperate cowardice known only to himself and his dead comrades. Between 1918 and 1939, he profitably combines sensational political journalism with the business of being an undercover agent...
...Caldecott is a truly dreadful character, designed to win Fitz Gibbon no friends in British left-wing intellectual circles, who have detested him ever since When the Kissing Had to Stop (TIME, July 18, 1960) made the left the villain of contemporary British history. Fitz Gibbon does not seem to mind, has announced his next book as Random Thoughts of a Fascist Hyena...