on the radio, or in front of booze-loosened crowds, but there was a symmetry in his and Handley’s roles: to pull, from the darkness of the imagination, scenarios that brought the listener to attention. Handley’s advice proved effective. The Canadian officer A. F. C. Layard later described the WATU director as a ‘very good lecturer, very theatrical and, of course, would like you to know that he was seventy-five per cent responsible for the recent defeat of the U-boats in the North Atlantic. He’s probably right.’
