The war in the East goes the same way. The British Labour Party is firmly resolved that Japanese barbarism shall be defeated just as decisively as Nazi aggression and tyranny. The people will have won both struggles. The gallant men and women in the Fighting Services, in the Merchant Navy, Home Guard and Civil Defence, in the factories and in the bombed areas-they deserve and must be assured a happier future than faced so many of them after the last war.
Labour regards their welfare as a sacred trust. . . .
II Britain's coming Election will be the greatest test in our history of the judgment and common sense of our people. The nation wants food, work and homes. It wants a high and rising standard of living, security for all against a rainy day, an educational system that will give every boy and girl a chance to develop the best that is in them. . . . The Labour Party stands for freedom-for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press. The Labour Party will see to it that we keep and enlarge these freedoms, and that we enjoy again the personal civil liberties we have, of our own free will, sacrificed to win the war.