Whakaotihia te rerenga kōrero e whai ake nei: I te tau 1938 i whakaponohia a Strachey e te Keynesianism me te New Deal o te perehitini o Amerika a Franklin D. Roosevelt. I te tau 1940 i whakaputaina e ia "He Kaupapa mo te Whakawhanake". I nui haere te pouri o Strachey ki te nekehanga Communist whai muri i te Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact me te
Te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Finland. I roto i tētahi reta ki te "New Statesman" i kī a Strachey kua rite nga Communists "mo te whakaaro o te... Soviet Union, ki te hoatu ara ki a Hitler i roto i tetahi whānuitanga, a he ratou tino kore kawenga mo nga hua ki te iwi o Ingarangi o taua ara mutunga kore. I te mea koina tonu te take... kaore au e whai mahi ki a raatau. " I wehe ia i te CPGB i te Paenga-whāwhā 1940.