 Although he never joined the CPGB, Gollancz was closely allied to the Communist Party during the second half of the 1930s.He finally broke with the party after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939, and pledged himself to Christian Socialism.In the early 1940s, Gollancz was sympathetic to Richard Acland's socialist Common Wealth Party and gave talks for the group before the general election of 1945.