The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-27
The Trend of the Times

A momentouS event has taken place as result of the actions of the people Of Eng land in voting out of office the Churchill Conservative government and replacing it with the Attlee-Laborite party. It IS indicative of the trend toward liberal goV- ernment which will unquestionably pro- vide the rudder for the future course Of the world.
 Have no doubts about it, we are enter ing, as we have so consistently stated Tn The Democrat a world era of retorma- tion and renaissance movements Wnlch will be etched into the monuments ot hls- tory.
 Yesterdays election in England was revolt of the nliddle-class people, the same type upheavel which marked the rebuke ofsthe people of Belgium to King Leopold and has influenced Franco of Span to revise his form of government. Stalln and Chiang observed such trend Tn the past and, for different reasons of State, endeavored to suppress and maintain as a minority, the middle-class Of ther countries In Stalins case the develop ment of the middle-class of Russia into a unified group might be disastrous, eventually, to the tenets of Communism. In (,hina'S case there are few of the mld- dle-class under todays inflationary con- ditions but in the China of the postwar as uttered and aided by the western world the middle-clasS will gain stature. Chlang we believe, foresees this and will sponsor it's development, but during the wars ln- terim his policy has indicated the prln- ciple that the middle-claSS must be held down lest it's sudden emergence in the midst of wars confusion only add to that confusion.
 We should bear in mind, in the case of England, that an English-Liberal such asAttlee is not liberal in the loose sense of being a radical or an uninhibited So- cialist The English, by nature, are con- servative and even their most liberal minded leaders and followers are com parable to an American broadmlnded Democrat or Republican.
 Indicative also of the moderate temper of the Laborites of England is the fact that Attlee and Churchill have seen eye to-eye on the war policy of the Empire except, perhaps, for Greece. Thus the new Prime Ministers approach to the peace-table will not be one of radlcallSm, we believe.
 The difference is that the people of England, particularly, the middle-class, wanted a change, fresh approach ln their politics and in the destiny of their Empire. They sought it even to the ex- tent of abandoning their gallant wartime leader, Winston Churchill.
 The latter undoubtedly is the most popular man in England at this time, rep resentative to the people of the intrinsic, native courage, tenacity and faith of the people of Great Britain. They have not repudiated their Winnie so much as they have many of his followers. They realize Churchill could we'll adapt himself to any politics and policies they desired and would have done so if placed in such position. But you can't split your vote in England and the people were deter mined to rid their government of the majority if not all the Conservatives; and Sostheir hero suffered.
 Churchill will recognize that even in the bitter doldrums of his defeat. He has been and always will be too much of a realist to permit sentiment to sour him against such public reaction. He has been and is political fataliSt, the pos sessor of a keen and sensitive thumb on the pulse of the people and he perhaps fofesaw much of this.
 We will hear great deal more from this gallant man.