Washingtonia remained neutral during the first two months of the Second World War, however with the sinking of the SS Alba in the Port of Foundersville, the King formally declared war in November 1939. The National Alliance, while condemning Germany for causing the deaths of around 300 Washingtonians, opposed the declaration of war and favored a Germany-inclined neutrality. The party's discourse and activism thus became dominated by foreign policy, with most of its domestic policy campaigning put aside. Although its leaders were arrested and released on several occasions during the war on suspicion of colluding with the enemy, the National Alliance was never banned. It however did lose most of its support throughout the course of the war. With the revelations of gross abuses of human right