Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hustings in 1945 with an election program titled, "Let Us Face the Future." Hopeful Britons swept Clement Attlee and the Laborites in with a 195-seat majority in Parliament. Last week, as Britain prepared for another general election, agile Laborite publicity men were right on hand with a new manifesto. The title this time: "Let Us Win Through Together." One of the authors wryly admitted, "It's a little long, but we needed to say all that...
...manifesto, a twelve-page pamphlet, had a red & white cover and a red & white program inside. Doctrinaire Socialists were promised a little more nationalization: sugar, cement, cold storage facilities and water supply (about a third of Britain's water systems are still privately owned). But the emphasis was on welfare, not state ownership. The greater part of the manifesto talked pleasantly of full employment, child welfare, and the "full and free development of every individual person...
...manifesto was obviously intended to catch the middle-class voters, who probably will decide the election. The Tory press, however, was not soothed by Labor restraint. "LAND TAKE-OVER FEARED" was the Daily Express' interpretation of a Labor proposal for government cultivation of unused private land. To Lord Rother-mere's Daily Mail, the Labor Party manifesto was "a blank check on nationalization"; to his Evening News, it was a "pink overall," a "pink pig in a poke" or "a great red wolf...