Editing Edward Max Nicholson (section)

==Other activities==
Nicholson's 1931 essay ''A National Plan for Britain'' led to the formation of the influential policy think tank [[Political and Economic Planning]] (PEP), now the [[Policy Studies Institute]]. Nicholson had strong ideas on how a country should be run and wrote a book "The System".

Nicholson joined the [[civil service]] in 1940, during [[World War II]] working for the Ministry of Shipping, then the [[Ministry of War Transport]], attending conferences at Quebec and Cairo, and was with [[Winston Churchill]] at the post-war peace conferences at [[Yalta]] and [[Potsdam]]. From 1945 until 1952, he was private secretary to [[Herbert Morrison]], the Deputy Prime Minister. He also chaired the committee for 1951's [[Festival of Britain]]. During the war years, he was in charge of organizing shipping operations and convoys across the Atlantic. He was involved in the planning of "Operation Overlord", the invasion of Europe. For his services he was awarded the CVO and CB.<ref name=auk/>