He also denounced "isolationism" and took a staunchly "pro-British" position in between the "fall of France" in the summer of 1940 and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, during which time Great Britain was essentially alone.
He also rejected "self-sufficiency" and took a resolutely "pro-British" stance between the fall of France in the summer of 1940 and the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, during which time Britain was largely isolated.