WIN FOR CHURCHILL

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 7

WIN FOR CHURCHILL

Expectation in England Rec. 9.45 a.m. LONDON, July 24. Few people in Britain today are risking: prediction of the election results, which are to be declared on Thursday, but generally speaking it is felt that, although there is likely to have been a pronounced swing to the Left throughout industrial England and Scotland, Mr. Churchill will go back with a narrow majority. Others think it will be 1929 over again (when Labour had 288 seats, the Conservatives 260, the Liberals 59, and others 8). It is expected that the first election results will come through by 10 on July 26, and that by 9 p.m. the final decision will be known.

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arrangements for the King to come back, but that the Prime Minister stopped his return. He alleged that the Prime Minister wanted the people to believe that the King was anti-demo-cratic, and recalled that the Government had paid homage to King Leopold in the critical days of 1940. The charges were denied by M. Van Acker, who said that his first interview with the King was extremely cordial and his intention at the time was that the King should return home. He had advised the King to make a gesture to the Allies, send a message to the Belgian people, issue a statement to the Belgian Parliament, and purge his immediate circle.