 After a flirtation with Mosley's Blackshirts, he joined the Conservative Party and became a political correspondent and investigative reporter for the "Daily Express".In 1940, with Michael Foot and Frank Owen, also Beaverbrook journalists, he wrote the political polemic, "Guilty Men", which is concerned with the UK’s appeasement policy and the politicians responsible for it.Meanwhile, Howard had been assigned by Lord Beaverbrook to investigate the 1930s English evangelical movement of American religious leader Frank Buchman.