CHURCHILL SLIPS, LABOR GAINS

...If Labor should be put in office it is unlikely to hold real power, however, because Conservative and Liberal representation will in all probability be strong enough in combination to outvote it should that sort of test arise...

...It is widely believed among shrewd political observers that Sir Richard Acland, former leader of the Common Wealth Party, has also lost out, running as a Laborite...

...Churchill's attempt to create panic by calling Harold Laski the real boss of the Parliamentary Labor Party and an unconstitutional dictator proved a "wet squib," as did his reference to Herbert Morrison, with whom he had so long worked as a cabinet colleague, as "characteristically cowardly...

...This much can be said already, though the full details of the balloting will not be known until July 26, when the soldier vote, presumably pro-Labor, has been tabulated.' I toured polling places throughout London on election day, and interviewed countless groups of voters...

...Whatever role Winston Churchill will play in the new House, his prestige has been seriously damaged by the campaign and its effects on public opinion...

...This was taken to mean, by numerous independent voters, that the Tories were frightened and "kicking blindly...

...LABOR'S campaign was, on the whole, dignified and constructive and in sharp contrast to the Conservative effort, the nature of which, many Conservatives will openly say, dismayed them as the eve of the polling approached...

...When Ramsay MacDonald first ran he had against him virtually the entire press...

...The Conservatives had behind them some 6 million circulation through Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and Daily Express, and the Kemsley papers, the Sketch and the Telegraph...

...Morrison, by all appearances, has lost his seat and may have to get back in the House by seizing the first chance to run in a by-election in another constituency...

...Churchill lost votes because of his mud-slinging tactics and injured the esteem in which he has so generally been held...

...Feeling ran high and all classes talked freely, exhibiting a temper that foretells bitter political warfare to come in parliamentary circles, on and off the floor...

...Of special interest is the fact that in this campaign the "left of center" elements had press support in the Daily Herald, the News Chronicle, the Mirror, and the Daily Worker, reaching a total of 5 million circulation...

...Since the polls closed I have spent hours in various controversial districts in an effort to appraise the tide of opinion and obtain the background of post-election forecasts among widely differing political forces...

...Even more interesting in the British capital is the belief that Brendan Bracken, much-criticized former Minister of Information, and widely heralded as a possible next Tory Prime Minister, in the event of the incapacitation of Winston Churchill, has been defeated...

...It seems unquestionable that Mr...