Ka cika wannan jumla: A shekara ta 1938 an rinjayi Strachey da Keynesianism da kuma New Deal na shugaban Amurka Franklin D. Roosevelt. A cikin 1940 ya wallafa "A Programme for Progress". Strachey ya zama ba shi da farin ciki tare da kwaminisanci na kwaminisanci bayan yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop da kuma
Soviet mamaye kasar Finland. A cikin wasika zuwa ga "New Statesman" Strachey ya yi iƙirarin cewa 'yan gurguzu "sun shirya, saboda... Soviet Union, don ba da hanya ga Hitler har zuwa wani mataki, kuma ba su da alhakin abin da ya faru ga mutanen Birtaniya irin wannan ba da izini ba. Muddin wannan ya kasance haka... ba zan iya yin kome da su ba. " Ya rabu da CPGB a watan Afrilu 1940.