As well as letters to the press (some forty in all, most to "The Manchester Guardian" – see Political letters below) his campaign included satires, articles, books, public speaking, fund-raising for the Red Cross, petitions to Parliament, meetings with émigrés like Haile Selassie and Stefan Zweig, and help for refugees. In these activities he was inspired by the example of "that grand old man" H. W. Nevinson, "one of the most striking personalities I have ever known", "whose long life has been given to Liberty". He dedicated his 1938 book "The Delights of Dictatorship" to Nevinson, by then a friend.