 Although he did not join any of the political factions fighting against the German occupation of Yugoslavia.Initially, he rejected both the partisan movement and Draža Mihajlović's Chetniks, as well as the various collaborationist militias (such as the Slovene Home Guard).After 1943, he collaborated with the so-called "Catholic Centre", led by Jakob Šolar and Andrej Gosar in the Province of Ljubljana, and Virgil Šček in the Julian March, trying to keep a balance between the pro-Communist Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and various anti-Communist forces.