Word: joads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week ex-Pacifist Joad and Randolph Churchill squared off over another provocative union resolution: "That this House regrets the influence exercised by the U.S. as the dominant power among the democratic nations...
...Money is the sole American standard of value," said Joad. "The nations are heading for hell and it is America which is leading us there . . . [American influence] corrupts, infects and pollutes whatever it touches." Angry shouts of "Shame!" greeted Joad's remark, "What a genius the Americans have for coming into a war late, on the winning side...
Howard E. Sherman, the only American undergraduate who took part in the debate, asked, "Since money for money's sake is an old-established Puritan principle of English origin, is not the honorable member from Balliol [Joad] regretting an influence which England gave America and which England is now getting back...
...when the shouting died down and the vote was taken, Joad won again...
...Since 1930 Joad, professor of philosophy at London University, has publicly advocated agnosticism, polygamy, suicide, Manichaeanism, Christianity, rationalism, dualism, pacifism, appeasement, intervention, Oswald Mosley, Socialism, anti-Zionism, gambling, Jane Russell's bosom and better British cooking...