News at Eleven: Little is said about the impact

of the second world war on pacifism, but these writers were all wartime children--[Adrian] Mitchell was born in 1932, [Harold] Pinter in 1930 and [Bernard] Crick in 1929--and all reacted by becoming pacifists. Pinter had his first traumatic confrontation with authority when he registered as a conscientious objector in 1948. Crick avoided national service by moving to North American universities. Mitchell did national service but said it "confirmed my natural pacifism", and he became one of the most doggedly pacifist writers in the country.

from The Guardian: In terms of spreading values, Mitchell mattered most

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