from Glory (1934). Journalism After leaving the world of finance, Lockhart joined Lord Beaverbook's Evening Standard. He served as the editor of the paper's Londoner's Diary column and became known for his hard-drinking and semi-debauched lifestyle. It enhanced his reputation that, despite having been caught by the Russians and exchanged for a Soviet agent, he remained on unusually cordial terms with the Soviet Embassy in London, from whom he received an annual gift of caviar. He also helped to organise Beaverbrook's Empire Free Trade Crusade campaign. In the 1930s, Lockhart began to release a number of books, which were successful enough to allow him to take up writing as a full-time career in 1937. Later life During the Second World War, Lockhart returned to government service. He became director-general of the Political Warfare Executive, co-ordinating all British propaganda against the Axis powers. He was also for a time the British liaison officer to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile under President Edvard Beneš. Lockhart recounted his activities from the Munich Crisis to VJ-Day in another volume of autobiography, Comes the Reckoning (1947). After the war, he resumed writing, lecturing and broadcasting and made a weekly BBC Radio broadcast to Czechoslovakia for over ten years. Personal life In 1913, Lockhart married firstly Jean Adelaide Haslewood Turner of Brisbane, Australia, and they had a son, the author Robin Bruce Lockhart, who wrote the book Ace of Spies (1967) – about his father's friend, the agent Sidney Reilly – from which the television serial Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) was later produced. He divorced his first wife Jean in 1938 citing her adultery with Loudon McNeill McClean. In 1948, Lockhart married his second wife Frances Mary Beck. His diaries, published after his death, reveal that he struggled for most of his life with alcoholism. Death and legacy Lockhart died on 27 February 1970, at the age of 82, and left property valued at £2054. His address at death was Brookside, Ditchling, Sussex. The 1983 British television series Reilly, Ace of Spies, was based on a book by his son. Lockhart was portrayed by actor Ian Charleson in the series. Honours Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (1943). Books Memoirs of a British Agent (Putnam, London, 1932). American edition: British Agent (Putnam, New York, 1933) Retreat from Glory (Putnam, London, 1934) Return to Malaya (Putnam, London, 1936) My Scottish Youth (Putnam, London,