CHANGE IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 50, 28 February 1942, Page 7

CHANGE IN BRITAIN

MOOD OF EXALTED DETERMINATION

(Rec. 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 27. Under the title "The New Spirit," the "Manchester Guardian" comments in a leader today on the change of spirit which has swept the country during the past, week, which, says, the "Guardian," may prove to have been a turning point in the war.

"There have been no victories to announce, but Britain has won • a victory over herself," it says. "A week ago there was grim .depression. The Prime Minister had called on the nation for unity, but for the first time there seemed to be something lacking in his appeal. So many things were wrong and so many questions were left unanswered. Then came Governmfent changes, the Prime Minister's presentation to the country of his 'more tersely braced and compact' Administration, and, after a debate of singular unanimity and earnestness, Sir Stafford Cripps's speech Showing that the Government was touched by a. new spirit. ; "The Mood of depression has been turned into a mood of exalted determination. That; is not to put it .too highly. One need only to turn to newspaper reactions to the debate and to Sir Stafford Cripps's speech to see the mirror of popular feeling—and all the newspapers and the politicians, too, can hardly be wrong at the same time. But this mood needs living up to. Many promises were made by Government spokesmen in the debate that things should be improved; these promises must be implemented."—B.O.W.