Brock served a six-month prison sentence in 1941, during which time his wife Eileen gave birth to their son Jeremy.
He shifted the focus of Peace News towards campaigning for nuclear disarmament, nonviolent direct action and the movement for colonial freedom.
In 1955 he appointed the American academic Gene Sharp to Peace News to cover the Civil Rights Movement.
[3] At that time the newspaper was the official organ of the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) but this formal link was broken in 1961.
[4] Between 1946 and 1952 Peace News published more than 160 articles dedicated to the discussion of Gandhi's relevance to the West.
[7] In 1957 Hugh Brock was one of a committee that arranged protests against British testing of the H-bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific.