Journalist John Edwards wrote in 1971 "The only (modern) force is the inimitable Webster who, lately returned from England, is responsible for most of the popularity of the (Sydney) Domain.
"[1] Nene King observed of a day spent at the Sydney Domain "Webster (no first name, no mister) commanded the largest audience as he waved a verbal flag for the British Empire – 'We Englishmen are God's gift to the whole world.
A communist rabble-rouser in the 1940s, he went on to subscribe to the anti-semitic views of the British fascists,[4] until he was approached by Oswald Mosley who told him – inter alia – in 1947 "we can use the Jews.
"[citation needed] This prompted Webster to reassess his own ideas and he subsequently wrote a letter of apology to the Jewish Chronicle expressing regret about his former views.
He told journalist Linda Hornsey that he had been working for the Ministry of Information when he suggested on a television programme, amongst other things, that the Arabs should make peace with Israel: "After that I made a quick but quiet retreat from the Middle East".
His method was one of deliberate provocation, conscious deployment of irony, "verbal cartooning" and a razor-edged wit attested to by all commentators of the time.