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Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World) and Harold Laski, British leftist economist, friend of Russia and sometime White House guest. Said Izvestia: "Meddling advisers." Their offense: signing a British National Peace Council petition urging a "strategy of mercy" toward Germany...
...Britain came the most amusing satire of World War II. Called The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (Faber & Faber, 6s.), it is a breezy but atrabilious burlesque at the expense of postwar plan ners. Author: Britain's bearded, ebullient Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who in the last ten years has espoused pacifism, Mosleyism, polygamy, socialism, appeasement, Christianity, spiritualism, hedonism. He has also written some earnest, reputable books of philosophy, become one of the most popular members of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s "Brains Trust" (Britain's Information Please...
Cripps and the Devil. Satirist Joad's Young Soldier is "a fine specimen of young English manhood, with a more enquiring turn of mind than is sometimes found among those who have emerged from the valley of the shadow of middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides...
Bearded British Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, plumber for polygamy, last week recommended four additional postwar freedoms: free gambling, freer drinking, cafe terraces and Sunday shows. To attract tourists to the Isles, he suggested that Britons "stop treating foreigners as monsters of immorality and freaks of eccentricity. . . . Also we should learn to cook...
Sleet-bearded Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 51, plumped for polygamy as a solution of his country's preponderance of women (2,000,000 surplus): "I, for example, like the company of different women for different purposes-one to go out to dinner with, another to go to church with, another to cook for me, another to mother me, another to play games with, and another to make love...