 DAC became also close to Chesterton's League of Empire Loyalists (LEL), and the two organization launched a campaign together in 1958 for the release of Ezra Pound from St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital.Del Valle ran for governor of Maryland in 1953 and was defeated in his attempt to be nominated in the Republican primary election.The controversial views shared by some of the members of "DAC" was to blame for the organization's decline in popularity.