He was a long-standing member of the House of Lords All-Party Defence Group (Hon.Secretary from 1978) and became U.K. delegate to the North Atlantic Assembly from 1981.

[5] Under his committee chairmanship a Club Policy Paper was published in August that year on The Future of Hong Kong by barrister David Sparrow.

In his capacity as Chairman of the Club's Foreign Affairs Committee he also addressed the NATO Plenary Session in June that year supporting the deployment of cruise missiles, and on 8 October 1983 addressed the Club's South-western Region day-conference at Taunton on the subject of "Defence and C.N.D.

He also contributed to the debate in the House of Lords on Unidentified Flying Objects: "UFOs defy worldly logic...

The human mind cannot begin to comprehend UFO characteristics: their propulsion, their sudden appearance, their disappearance, their great speeds, their silence, their manoeuvre, their apparent anti-gravity, their changing shapes."