 Shirley manoeuvred against Dr Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" who was "ex-officio" the Chairman of Governors.When the Dean put up a huge blue and white banner across the front of the Deanery which read "Christians Ban Nuclear Weapons", some of the boys by way of ripost, put up a banner on one of the school's buildings which read, "King's Ban Communists".Fred had his detractors.