 He was editor of "The Overseas Daily Mail" and in addition manager of the export department of the Amalgamated Press from 1907 and sales manager from 1909.Wrench, however, was less interested in success in journalism than in his visions of Commonwealth development awakened by his visits to Canada and the United States.He told in his book "Uphill", the first volume of his autobiography, how in 1910 a turning point came in his life, crystallizing itself in his memory as a "vision" that came to him at the memorial service to King Edward VII in Westminster Abbey, where he said, "the scales fell from my eyes, I vowed I would devote my life to great causes – to the Empire, to my fellows."