ALL PLANS LAID

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 23, 27 July 1945, Page 7

ALL PLANS LAID

WORK AGAINST JAPAN

MR. CHURCHILL LAYS DOWN HIS CHARGE

Rec. 11.20 a.m.

LONDON. July 26.

Mr. Churchill, in a statement from No. 10 Downing Street, said:— '"The decision of the British people has been recorded in the votes counted today. I have, therefore, laid down the charge which was placed on me in darker times. I regret I have not been permitted to finish the work against Japan. For this, however, all plans and preparations have been made, and the results may come much quicker than we have hitherto been entitled to expect.

"Immense responsibilities abroad and at home fall on the new Government, and we must all hope that they will be successful in bearing them.

"It only remains for me to express to the British people, for whom I have acted in these perilous years, my profound gratitude for the unflinching, unswerving support. which they have given me during my task, and for the many expressions of kindness- which they' have shown to me, their servant." "I deeply regret the national decision, but I accept it because I believe in democracy," declared Mr. Eden, commenting on the result of the election. "Frankly, I did not expect a majority of this size." Professor Laski, on behalf of the British Labour Party, issued a statement thanking Mr. Churchill for the great services he had rendered to the nation as Premier. "This has been a hard fight for Mr. Churchill, but it is not of our making; it is the British people who have spoken, and we thank them for their proof of the full maturity of British democracy." 'Sir' Archibald Sinclair, who was defeated after holding the Caithness and Sutherland seat for 23 years, said that the Liberal Party had done badly. He added, however, that the Liberals had polled over two million votes, and that every constituency where a Liberal candidate fought reported a tremendous accession of new workers, who promised to provide a firm base for future operations.