Grindea and his wife arrived in Britain in September 1939,[5] two days before the outbreak of the Second World War, and he was soon employed in the BBC’s European Intelligence Section at Bush House, London.
As David Gascoyne noted: "It was in fact obvious, in the mid-forties,to any educated reader, that Adam's only rival was the then recently defunct Criterion, edited by T S Eliot.
"[6] Grindea edited and, with subsidies, financed ADAM from his London home at Emperor’s Gate in Kensington, over the decades featuring an eclectic range of subjects in the magazine (its title was an acronym for Art, Drama, Architecture and Music), and attracting an illustrious list of unpaid contributors (in both English and French), who at various times included George Bernard Shaw, Cecil Day-Lewis, W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Anthony Powell, Lawrence Durrell, Winston Churchill, Max Beerbohm, François Mauriac and Samuel Beckett,[7] at times featuring drawings by artists including Picasso and Chagall.
"[6] Hanif Kureishi was quoted in a 2014 Guardian article as saying: "I only once pitchforked a person I knew directly into a novel to make a point, and that was Miron Grindea, the editor of the international literary magazine Adam, whose respectful attendance on the great and good in his editorials I found highly amusing.
[15] A commemorative exhibition, Miron Grindea and the Art of Literary Journalism, was held at the Weston Room, Maughan Library and Information Services Centre, Chancery Lane, in 2003.