Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I uru ia ki te British Communist Party i te tau 1923. I muri i te whakaekenga a te Soviet ki Finland
i Whiringa-a-rangi, i te tau 1939, ka whakahe a ia i nga Communists i roto i tētahi tuhinga mō "The New Republic". I te wā o ngā whakamātautau o ngā kōmunista i whakapaehia i ngā tau 1950, ka kore ia e whakaae ki te whakaatu i mua i te Komiti o te Whare mo nga Mahi Kore-Amerika.