He travelled to the West Indies in 1939 and Canada where he joined the Canadian Army at the outbreak of World War II, but was invalided out in 1941.
Back in Britain, he started as a sub-editor on the Daily Express, and later as a personal assistant to Manny Shinwell, a Labour MP, writing speeches for members of the party.
[2] In 1970 he was approached by Christopher Mayhew MP, who had just received £50,000 from the Sheikh Zayed of the UAE to publish a new magazine Middle East International (MEI).
[5] Free Palestine withdrew its contract; a key member of his administrative staff resigned and his senior foreman had a stroke.
Despite a £20,000 donation from the Kuwaiti Ambassador to restore the press the business never recovered and MEI moved to a different publisher with Morris eventually severing relations.
[8][9] By the late 1980s, Morris had become convinced of the need to find a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and in 1989 helped establish the Next Century Foundation He wrote a two-volume autobiography -I Bought a Newspaper (1963) and The Last Inch: a Middle East Odyssey (1997).