 During World War II, Hulton was one of the members of the 1941 Committee, a group of British politicians, writers and other people of influence not generally involved with a political party but who came together in 1941 to press for more efficient production to enhance the war effort.Hulton helped fund the Home Guard training school at Osterley Park, organising a private supply of weapons from the United States.Though he had stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate at Leek in 1929, his 1943 book "The New Age" supported a mixed welfare-state economy and he welcomed Attlee's 1945 government.