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Winston Churchill called it Britain's "most momentous election," but it didn't seem that way. Not that there was a shortage of momentous texts. According to Clement Attlee, Labor had spent the last six years "cleaning up the mess of centuries." According to Winston Churchill, the last six years had marked "the greatest fall in the rank and stature of Britain since the loss of the American colonies." But the clash of massive allegations hardly disturbed a campaign that was decorous even by British standards...
...persistent in their questioning, and sometimes skillful in heckling. Tories talked mostly about the cost of living, anxious to dodge the war party label that Labor tried to fasten on them. Tom Dewey's old slogan, "It's Time for a Change," turned up on Tory placards. Clement Attlee, making a virtue of his plainness, and of the Socialist largess, liked to look out over an audience that was plainly but warmly dressed and say: "I think you compare favorably with a 1945 crowd." It was an effective trick...
Laborites were counting heavily on Clement Attlee to pull a Truman. They do have some things in common. People are apt to write Attlee off too easily; lacking greatness, he impresses by his plainness. And he is a fighter. Last week he set off on an eight-day, 1,000-mile, 53-speech Trumanesque "whistlestop" tour of Britain, talking up a "fair deal to all the people." His flat, colorless words conjured up, in the minds of thousands of north country folk, deep-seated memories of "dark Satanic mills," unemployment and poverty-the evils which millions of British Socialists instinctively...
...melancholy fact about Britain's 1951 election is that two parties are competing for the privilege of presiding over the next bout of economic unpleasantness. Clement Attlee, if he expects to lose, has exercised the Prime Minister's privilege of putting the fruit for which Churchill has been reaching into the old man's hands at the precise moment when it is turning into the worst kind of lemon. Neither side apparently sees a way to cope with the crisis except by blood, sweat and tears, which in peacetime terms mean regimentation, restriction and austerity...
...Northern Ireland. Each contained a copy of a royal proclamation: "Being desirous and resolved as soon as may be to meet Our people, [We] do hereby make known to all our loving subjects Our Royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament . . ." At St. Paul's Cathedral Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill and Clement Davies, leader of the dwindling Liberal Party, knelt at pre-election prayers...