BRITAIN’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN STARTS

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 July 1949, Page 5

BRITAIN’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN STARTS

Comments From Leading Newspapers LONDON, July 25 (Recd. 7 pm). — The Tory policy in Britain's general electiijn campaign opened in earnest this week-end. While Mr. Churchill expounded the Conservative policy to 35,000 at Wolverhampton, a quarter of a million miners at Durham heard the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee and other Ministers hitting back at the Tory' programme, calling for full support for Labour. The “Daily Telegraph’’ regarded the Tory pledge to maintain the closest contact with trade unions and foster their independence as the most significant passage in Mr. Churchill's speech, but Miners’ Union leaders, supporting Mr. Attlee at Durham, doubted the pledge's sincerity. “The Times’’ says, editorially, that critics pointed out, with perfect truth, that whole passages of the Tory “right road for Britain’’ would Ct comfortably into Labour’s rival statement: “Labour believes in Britain.” “The ’Anes” says: “There would be serious reasons for disquiet if this were not so. Democracy in general, and the British two-party system in particular, can only work so long as there is a wide measure of agreement between the parties and a change of Government doe s not mean a *iolent change in method.’’ The Liberal “News Chronicle,” discounting rumours of an autumn election, accused the Conservatives of doing the very- thing they charged the Labour Party with doing in 1945. “They are making promises which cannot possibly be kept in the lifetime of a single Parliament,” says the paper.