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.
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