Last week the sometimes gloomy subject of the postwar world got a laugh at last. Out of 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...
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