"Captive Nations". Around the same time, she allied herself with campaigns to support public decency, and was briefly associated with Mary Whitehouse, becoming chairwoman of the London branch of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. In this role, she attempted to launch a number of prosecutions against productions and writers that offended her sense of taste, including the producers of the theatrical revue Oh! Calcutta! and actor John Bird, the author of the play Council of Love, whom she accused of blasphemy. After seeing Oh! Calcutta! on 27 July 1970 with its abundance of full frontal nudity of both sexes, she went to the police station to demand that Kenneth Tynan, the producer of Oh! Calcutta!, be charged with obscenity. Her "manic persistence and weird taste in spectacles" made her into a media favorite, who could be counted upon to say something outrageous when the press spoke to her. The Manchester Guardian called her in 1970 "the sharpest thorn in the side of the permissive society". Lady Birdwood became involved in campaigns against trade unions, setting up the Citizens Mutual Protection Society in the early 1970s, which launched a failed attempt to run a private postal service. She took a leading role in several far-right pressure groups, including the Immigration Control Association, Common Cause, the British League of Rights (of which she was General Secretary) and Self Help, the latter attempting, unsuccessfully, to charge Arthur Scargill with sedition. She founded Self Help as an anti-union group in 1970. Following her departure, she was associated with the National Front for a short period. In 1973, she published an article in Spearhead, the journal of the National Front, reporting "one statistic which is characteristic of many of our cities today", namely "for every 12 white children born, there are 184 coloured children born". She also worked with Ross McWhirter at this time on his magazine Majority, and became a vocal critic of the Provisional Irish Republican Army after his murder in 1975. She also devoted much time to the World Anti-Communist League. In 1974, she briefly served as president of the British chapter of the World Anti-Communist League. In 1974, the World Anti-Communist League expelled the Foreign Affairs Committee as its British chapter as too moderate, and instead took on the British League of Rights as its British chapter, whose leader was Birdwood. Despite the fact that the World Anti-Communist League had