 During World War II , Havelock moved away from the socialist organisations he had been associated with , and in 1944 was elected founding president of the Ontario Classical Association . One of the association 's first activities was organising a relief effort for Greece , which had just been liberated from Nazi control . Havelock continued to write about politics , however , and his political and academic work came together in his ideas about education ; he argued for the necessity of an understanding of rhetoric for the resistance to corporate persuasiveness . 
