Sanity: Maybe he follows, or set the path for the Catch-22, Nineteen Eighty-Four view that everyone is insane, and sanity is statistical. He probably saw sanity as a choice between two almost identical camps of Fascism or Communism and the savage strays from these options.
The Third Option: The third option is like the Third Reich horrible to live under. His third option was most likely seclusion like Thoreau and J.D. Salinger choose. Many writers pick this path. Anyone from this time, notable Huxley, Orwell, and Mencken, were all around in the interwar years and knew what was to come. For this they were cynical and pessimistic for they could assume what was to come of the world once more.
The Iron Curtain: Churchill like Lincoln and FDR and all the other Western "heroes" may have few opponents today but did at their times. It wouldn't surprise me if Huxley understood that there was no heroism in World War II that was not a product of the military, medical staff, or common people. Indeed all seem to be with them yet who takes credit our tyrannical leaders. He probably understood how the Allies planned out to divide Europe and that the Iron Curtain was intentional and planned. The Western powers knew what Stalin wanted and conceded it to him anyone of intelligence at the time understood this. They also knew what the Soviet Union was and what would become of the world under its death grip. So he was critical of the leaders simply using words to decry the ally a year ago and enemy now instead of logical argumentation to attack it.
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