“PEOPLE WON WAR”
MR. MORRISON’S SPEECH
PREMIER “VERY TIRED’’ (9 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. “Mr. Churchill’s broadcast was a sentimental and emotional attempt to reduce the election issue to ‘be kind to me,” said Mr. Herbert Morrison in a speech. “He is evidently very tired. lam genuinely sory about it. He travelled too much about the country for a man of his age. Ido not want to 1 be unkind to him. The country is indebted to him for his capable leadership. It is not characteristic of him to imply that he did Ihe whole bag of tricks. I think lie ought to give others credit for the enormous jobs they did.” Mr Morrison urged electors not to return a vote of thanks. The election was not held to determine who won the European war, but Britain’s future. The Labour Party was as capable of winning the Japanese war as the others. Labour’s economic and industrial policies, in fact, would finish it more quickly. “No Government and no man can claim to have won the European war,” he added. “Millions of men and women in the forces, civil defence, the ■ factories and the homes did that. The people won the war. The issue now is whether the people or the privileged classes will go on' and win the peace.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21755, 3 July 1945, Page 3
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