Evening star., 1950-02-17
AttIee and Churchill
Back in London Ready
To Wind Up Campaign
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. I'M. and
Mrs. Clement Attlee pulled up in
front of No. 10 Downing Street
in their 1887 model family car
last night, confident they would
occupy that address again for the
next five years: It's the official
home of the Prime Minister of
Great Britain.
Both the Labor Party Prime
Minister and his colorful oppo-
nent, Conservative Leader VIM
ston Churchill, had finished their
various tours of the country to
seek votes for the February % ma
tional elections.
Mr.. Attlee, in a whistle-stop
campaign that resembled in some
respects President Truman's 1948
vote-getting junket, covered some
1900 miles of British roads-his
wife driving. He made "a sched-
uled speeches and an untold num-
ber of informal talks clear to
Glasgow, Scotland, and back.
Churchill Talks Tonight.
Mr.. Churchill, too. was back
from trip by train in which he
asked for Mr.. Attlee's job as
Prime Minister, promised to turn
the tide of Socialism in Britain
and suggested he might bring
about new Big Three talks that
would solve the East West atom
bomb race.
Mr.. Churchill will make his
party's last political broadcast to-
night.
Mr.. Attlee will continue his
campaign by speaking again in
his own constituency of Waltham-
stow, a crowded section of North
east London, after "a hours rest.
On his arrival Mr.. Attlee told
reporters the trip had been most
enjoyable-very fine" Earlier he
told a gathering in Leicester he
was very optimistic.
"I am very confident that we
are going to. win," he said.
Lord Woolton, the self-made
millionaire who gave up several
rich private jobs to run Mr..
Churchill's party campaign, had
different idea. He told the
Tory Constitutional Club here
yesterday: 1--WE are going to win"
Cites Pledge Fulfillment.
/ The 67-year-old Prime Minister
claims little of the dash and color
shown by his 75-year- oppo-
nent. But on his tour he drew
quite a few cheers and not so
many hecklers. He stuck mainly
to the theme that his Labor gov
ernment had fulfilled all of it's
| l945 campaign promises. He
talked of full employment, "fair
shares for all and social security.
| Only once did he waver from
this theme to rip into Mr.. Church
i'll for what he called wild. whirl-
ing words"
Some newsmen who commented
on Mr.. Attlee's junket agreed 1t
had helped his cause. A reporter
for the British Press Association
who followed him all the way
wrote:
From the Labor point of view,
Mr.. Attlee's tour was an unquali-
fed success"
A writer for the Liberal Man
chester Guardian said Mr.. Attlee's
tour had something of the quail
ity of Mr.. Truman's personal ap-
proach to the Americans that con-
founded all prophets in the presi-
Dental elections.
Both" the reporter wrote,
"have that quality of 'ordinariness'
that is a good deal rarer than it
sounds-and both know how to
use it,
Mr.. Attlee touched only once
in Northampton-on the question
of atomic control which was
raised by Mr.. Churchill in his
Edinburgh (Scotlando speech.
He spoke of new weapons of
destruction" and added that eff
mankind is to survive it must con-
troll the blind forces and we shall
continue towards that end"
Morrison Hits Churchill
Deputy Prime Minister Herbert
Morrison in London last night ac-
cused Mr.. Churchill of "irrespon-
sible intervention" into foreign
affairs in his suggested Big Three
talks on East-West relations.
Foreign Secretary Bevin, speak
ing at Plumstead last night,
turned thumbs down on the sug-
|gestion that Mr.. Churchill should
become Prime Minister to try to
bring about an understanding with
Russia.
II do not think Mr.. Churchill is
1 greater than all Of u.s." said Mr..
Bevin, including President Tru-
man. President Truman and I,
Dean Acheson Omitted States Sec
retary of State) and the French
government have all been trying to
solve this problem.
IceIond's Foreiqn Minister
Campaigns for 2 in Ulster
DUNGANNON, Northern Ire
land, Feb. II (P.-Sean Mac
Bride, the Foreign Minister of the
independent Irish Republic, en-
tered British-governed Northern
Ireland last night to boost two
candidates for the British Parlia-
ment who are against partition of
Ireland.
Mr.. MacBride told the predomi-
nantly Protestant listeners of
Ulster that partition of Ireland
could be ended by forming a fed
Grafton of the northern and
southern parts. He said There