 He attended the congress in the Hague in 1948 from which the European Movement sprang, and was President of the Oxford Union Society in 1949.In the early 1950s he was diplomatic correspondent on the Kemsley Newspapers (part of Ian Fleming's Mercury News Service), and after his election to Parliament he continued to write freelance with regular contributions to (amongst others) the Telegraph, Truth, the National and English Review, Blackwood's, the Spectator, the Berkshire Chronicle, the Trenton Times (USA), and from 1961 German press and television.He made documentary films for J. Arthur Rank and frequently broadcast on British radio and television.