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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...
...sparked by Guest Speaker Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad,* a bearded, posturing professional pundit, the famed old Oxford Union voted 275 to 153 "that under no circumstances will we fight for King and Country." When graduate members, led by Winston Churchill's choleric son Randolph, tried to expunge this from the record, they were swamped 750 to 138. In his history of World War II, Winston Churchill somberly wrote: "It was easy to laugh off such an episode in England, but in Germany, in Russia, in Italy, in Japan, the idea of a decadent, degenerate Britain took deep root...
...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...