RESULT OF BRIGHTON BY-ELECTION
SEEN AS REBUFF TO MR CHURCHILL
(Rec. 10.45 a.m.) London, Feb. 6. The Brighton by-election is viewed by the London “Sunday Observer” as a persona] rebuff to Mr Churchill. The Conservative majority in the byelection on Friday was only 1939, compared with 41,626 in 1935—the largest majority in British history. The paper, in an editorial, says: “Mr Churchill is no longer his own master. He is a prisoner of the Coalition that still fails to mirror the new will to progress and adventure. Mr Churchill suffered a heavy personal defeat when his man only ju.jst scraped home in the safest of safe seats. This is because he made suppression of criticism and opposition to his Government a matter of personal confidence in himself. “All Europe is looking for a sign of the leadership and aid we gave in 1940, and already Europe is disappointed. Mr Churchill alone could make at once a kind of coalition party or policy that would harness the running tide. Yet at the height of his power and prestige he stays in the ‘protective custody’ of his present coalition.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 February 1944, Page 2
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