The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Churchill Defeated
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Ceruat ScnlSmS pTeak ltS power. 1uc first Labor government was a coalition in the '20's.
 Churchill, however, was expect- ed to return to Potsdam for the last of the conferences with Stalin and President Truman. Attlee had sat i non those discussions in prepara- ton for just the eventuality which occurred - Churchill'S repudiation by the electorate.
 Far-Reaching Effects
 Implications of the election were far reaching.
 The voters swept from office vir- tually all the Conservative party leaders and wheelhorses with the exception of Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
 They also vested power in a party whose policy and platform Is radi- cally different from that of the Conservative and Coalition govern nents which have run Britain for the past 10 years.
 Teh Labor Party is committed to the naturalization of mines, rail- roads and power. Its program calls for the replacement of the Bank Of England with Government Gen. tral Bank and it has sponsored land and housing reforms which might 1 include the standardization of urban land.
 Labor Viewpoint
 The Labor viewpoint on foreign affairs clashes with that of Church. | i'll and the Conservatives at dozen points, notably regarding Greece and Spain in Europe. It also can be expected to be more concilliatory to- | ward India'S demands for independ- ence.
 British political observers inter- preted the election not so much a repudiation of Churchills wartime leadership as repudiation of the Conservative Party which was blamed for creating or allowing the creation of conditions which led to the war.
 The mood of the electorate was clearly shown when the unknown farmer, Alexander Hancock, who ran against Churchill in London suburban district managed to roll up a total of more than 10000 votes only 17,000 fewer than were cast for Churchill.
 Alone among the prominent Con- servatives to come through the cleo tion with his support little damaged was Eden who boiled 60 per cent of his electorate.
 Churchilfs associates and col leagues toppled around him like tenpins while the Labor leaders rode through with impressive ma jorities.
 Among those who went out of Parliament in the sweep was Bren- dan Bracken, Churchill's closest government associate, and inform ation minister until recent weeks when he became First Lord of the Admiralty.
 Others who fell were: M. H. Mac Milan, secretary of state for air; Big. Gen. Sir Edward Spears, Brit ish minister in the Levant states; Leslie Hore- -Belisha, one-time war minister; Leopold S. Amery. secre- tary of state for India, Sir James Grigg, war minister; GeoffreJ Lloyd, minister of information; Mai. Randolph Churchill, the Prime Ministers son; Duncan Sandys, re- construction minister and son-in. law of the prime minister; Rich- ard Law, minister of education; Sir William Beveridge, author o1 the famous Beveridge plan: Ralpt Assheton, chairman of the Con- servative party, William Astor, sor of Lady Astor; Sir Richard Acland leader of the Leftist Commonwealth party; and Ernest Brown, Libera National and minister of aircraft production.
 Reformation Period That the Churchill bid to stay a .. Britain's helm during the critica days of the end of the Pacific wa
 and the beginning of reconstruction was in danger had been fore shadowed before the end of tn brief election campaign.
 But that the Labor party woul, , make a sweep had not even beel . expected by the most optimisti $ laborites.
 l All political observers had agree y that it was the most difficult cleo ] tion to forecast in generation ] since nearly a third of the voter were going to the polls for tn
 first time.
 . Army sentiment, it was knowr : had swung sharply to the left am [ its extent had been revealed il . Berlin where the troops cheere Attlee rather than Churchill dur ing an inspection of Field Marsha
 Sir Bernard Montgomerys "des
 ert rats"
 Churchill Determined
 As the electoral torrent poure
 in, sweeping his friends and asso
 ciates out of office, Churchill, grin
 and doughty as he ever had bee
 in the critical days of the blit.
 remained closeted in 10 Downin
 street.
 e Outside the dingy little hous r which is the office and residence C !, British Prime Ministers a littl
 crowd stood, huddling close to tn building to keep out of the drizz ling London rain.
 l, The defeat suffered by Churchi < and his caretaker government wa
 one of the worst in British politics history. Eleven of the IS member of the cabinet were voted out ( J office. In addition to Churchill an Eden, Colonies. Minister Olive T Stanley and Production Ministe U Oliver Lyttleton survived. O The fate of Col T. I T,llewelIif