VOTERS’ REACTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21777, 28 July 1945, Page 2

VOTERS’ REACTION

WEARINESS OF WAR AMERICAN~COMMENT TRIBUTES TO~CHURCHILL (11 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. The New York Times, in an editorial on the British elections, says: “The result is, perhaps, the natural reaction of a nation sick of war and the symbols of wdr and moved, above all, by a desire for a change. War weariness goes very deep m Britain “Throughput their steadfast struggle with ils bombs, black-outs and privations, the people have been promised great rewards. They have beep promised new homes, security, and a farreaching programme of social reform and now they want to sec this dream fill filled. They voted lor the party pledged to the quickest and fullest realisation of the peace programme Mr. Churchill chose to light hi.s inept campaign on domestic issues. It. is clear that these issues decided the election. The New York Daily News saye: “Mr. Churchill should be created Duke of Churchill, lie earned that honour as truly as Wellington and Mr. Churchill’s great ancestor. Marlborough, earned their dukedoms. Whether Britain gives honour,? that arc due or continues to heap ingrat.tude upon his head, he will go down in history as tliC greatest Englishman of hi.s time and one of the greatest of ait time.” , Stature UinliimnisTied

The New York Herald-Tribune 'says: "No electoral returns could diminish thA stature of Mr. Churchill, file election in which a free people deliberately retired great war Wilder as it faces the issues of peace puts a more fitting end lo Mr. Churchill’s Ministry than any insubstantial and unstable result, fated to sink ino the quicksands of partisan politics, could possibly have done, ic is a more sincere tribute to Mr. Churchill’. l genuine personality than the khaki election of 1918 ever was lo Lloyd George. 11, at least, saved his career from the dreary consequences which overtook his predecessor in the years just after the last war. ’ The New York Times '.orfest-phdent in Washington says: “It is noted superficially that tlie Labour Party victory should knit Britain and Russia closer together, but observers pointed out that the Russian Communists dislike nothing more than Communists. The new Government apparently represents something like .state socialism. Britain has moved only slightly to tlie Left and is still far from communism. Indeed, on many issues such as the nationalisation of transport and coal mining the Conservatives held similar views.”