t's difficult to speak of the big ne a of this - da , without a fe ling of sadn ea. for today's u brought us the story ot the fall of a Titan. And be went do n a great men usuall7 cl:x go down -- enaulfed by a landslide -- the l ndalide that weeps linston and his ConserYatiYe govern ent out of offioa i Britain. greatest defeat an7 British goverD nt in many a decade, on ot the great at of P rlia ■enta came into bein&. n astounding story. Twelve out of • v nteen me bera of Church1ll'a Cabinet no~ v n re-elected to the Bou e of Co ona, twel e out ot • ev nteen! Chu chill himself goes in again,m an 1.P. So also does oreign Secretar Anthony Eden. 1 h score: Two hundred and ten Churchil aembers of Parlia ent; four hundraa and seventeen for the new &overnmen. In other words, a two-to-one def.eat. l l!ElD - 2 And so one of England's greatest ri Ministers • nt to Buckingha Palace tonight and ga up the seal of office -- to the ting. Georg the Sixth i media ely sent for the former D Minister, Major Clement Attlee, .._ now becomes tin& George's first Minister with a cl ar majority of a hundre and twenty f ve in the Bouse of Co aons. Tha first time in history for Labor to go into oft.ice in lngland with a clear ajor ty Although there ve been two previous Labor Cabinets, they were inority Io• rn •en ta . --o-- The first question asked oYer here was: •that dit erence will it aak not only to the British pir bat to us, an the world?• Probably Terr littl • ln fact, it ay even i~prove relations between tile A rican people and the British people. Many, perhaps a01t Americans. have suspected the British Tories, looked upon them as out - and-out Imperialists - - •ii• which they are. So, maybe a Labor government at 10 D01rning Str et will be easier to work with. There t ink so. re an who ow about the British E pire? The British !,abor Party has already endorsed theind pol ic7 at ,a the Churchill government. As for the do inion go ern ents, they ■ay find it easier to wort• th a Labor group 1n Do1111ing Str et, sine Auat alia, e• Z aland, and South Atrioa re definitely on the Labor ■id • As for Canada, well Canada is alaoat the heart ot the present-day British Co ■ aonwealth. Bat wh n it oo es to relat i ons b4twem Great Britain and the So let Onion, t at is another story. Communists seea to find it easier to work with Conservatives than with Social ata. ill oa■ uniata core and dislike Socialists. Whil Attl e hiuelt is a member of the Fabin~ the eociety made famo a by George Beraard Shaw, the hairman of the British Labor Party is a decid dly C oamunistic profassor, Harold Laski. Socialist rarty discipline is 80 strong, that the Executive Co ittee ot the Party bas pow rf ol control oYer its members in L D - 4 public of ·c e. and c n n roe the r resignation if th 1 do no do the behest f th executiYe co ■ ittP.e. It Laa ' t 's po110r p edo 1nates, • e • d r how far the British ill swing to the left? To ua the sad part oft e newa is that the British people have re o ed from the political acne • th an who l•d th to Yictory in the gr t a t war ot all time, one of the great personalities of all history. t70 her Lab f. u ad h re · · r, t ~ u . gh h / ~ ease tu esque / ' . / in the · rt tis c ne u d , a no of / / /._ - ce, ~d probab - wil!,avoid , iw..~ts:1,===,~~'!41 - __....._,.....~• - " ~ .... 1/7, • ..,er before in British hietory h v e t . own out of o . ffioe a v · ictoriou war Pri soing on. eelAehu chill as any of the• woulds il patronisingly •he t •7 heard an A rica d acrib Churchill as one oft e thre great British Prim __ iniaters, th oth r two being lillia■ Pitt th Elde , Earl of Cbathaa, th creator of th.e Bri . tiah · ptre, ad Willia• Pitt the Young r -6 Dist c gav u th dvantag of pr p ctiYe, 11 al o historical perap ctive. le know Churchill 1 hi writi g , b7 his gnificent radio ap ech a, nd ~••lx■I abov all by hie aohi aents. Th fritiah think of him • •tinuie•, a ■ an who baa cbang d aid I tten, who n v r acco pliah d any pronounced ucceaa until thi1 war. nd t pon the war as b in1 , ractically ov r. Ya, they ar consciou that the war A with Japan still has to b fou1ht and won. B.!_.t the la1i In one sense, it is not quite accurat to aay that the British hav rej ct d Churchill hi lf.) 'f;:, A recognize that nobody else could have done the job h perform d so · ■ agnificently. hi I lf f ela tonight? 0 e of his id 1 aid: •t u can't t 11 bow h feel • You can h rt a cha pion bu he do n't show it.• All that Churchill hiaa lf would aay in a brief t tem nt to the public was that thanked th British p opl for their 1 ng a pport ot i ■ a their 1 Tant, and be was only aorey t at h couid t war with Japan to a fini . •~--h ... __ ...... • ~ ~ ----- -:--~ ------ ATTI, --- lh t ort o an i the new Pri• liniet r wko will 1~ d reat Britain through th final atagea of th Jap nese War and at least th first st ges of th pace? In b ckground and lo k he ia a typical !ngli h an of the well-to-do ■ iddl cla1a, old school ti and a graduat of 0%tord, •her graduat d with honors in od rn hi tory. ti~ 10 wany of hia claaa, b was call d to th bar and ■ eanwhil becaae a . s - ~ 1ettleaent worker in London'• 11 t East In • that contir ■ed th Soci list inclination• h had .lad readin1 lilliaa lorria and John Bu1kin. In inet en~ van h Join d th Labor Part7. ~ ' rld lar, he 1erved Gallipoli,~ · A In the fir t •••opotaaia 1 an~france,Aaes:taa:::::t:11a===s:i111Alllli!II~• Jor. a ••• first elected to Parlia ent as a Labor aber in lin teen Twenty-One, and b caae Parlia■enta 1 Pri at Secretary to Ba say MacDonald. ' In atatur he ts rather small. ATTLEE - & Be's qu t, so e sa7 demur nd no orator. In any ways e's the antithesis 01 Churchill. Be's the sort whose d k is always tidy, hie fountain pen alway fall, and h lways knock.a the shes of his pipe into an ash tray. Winston Churchill is a titan aaong ■en. In comparison, Attl is ousie. B t, you can't alway ■ tell from appearances, as ••k we know. --o-- Attlee has left no rooa for doubt about the do aatic policy or h~a governaent. Be says it will b of an out-and-out Sooialiat character. At hie press the cont ranee today,.(Prime linister was accoapani d 7 Proteaaor Baroid Laski of London Uni ersity Ch ir an of the Labor Party and an extrea Left linge~ -- ~•lieved to be a eliever in the so-call d dictatorship ot the proletariat. Soae in the shadow of Laski loo ing over the•••• new govern• nt, think th ae an omen of strict regimentation. As Chairman of the Labor Party, L sti is likely to be the power behind the t ■ government. In fact, this was made cle r toward th and ot today's press confereno& After Attlee finished reading his stat ent to the newapap ran, they began to boll.bard him with questions. Attlee e ed about to reply, but Laski held up his band and said: o quest ions. The reports aa1 Attlee look a tonis ed at this, and strode out of the roo -- it you can visual ze Attlee striding. --o-- As Attlee entered Labor h adquartera today thro111h a cheering ■ z■••~ crowd, one of the ■ aho•t d: •1111 7ou tat Winnie back to Potadaa as an obaer• r?• The little 11an smiled and a aid nothing. In hio prepared tatemeat b promiaed cooperation with th United States and the So let Onion. •our fore i1n p licy, • said be, •can be au ■aed up aa a need for a new z ■ •orld order fort prevention of war, and a world eoono io polioJ based on an endeavor to . raiae the standards of life.• The trike of eighte n thou and en at the h I• Dodge factory of the hryaler Corporation in Chicago shed a curious light on ind atrial r lation .lncid ntallh it is a serious threat to tbe war ffo~t, since it ha coapletely stopped th production of enginea for, t bi1 Sup rforts. !~ •• h two huadr d and fourth atrik at that pl t sine January, ineteen Forty-lour. Two h adre4 a :four atrikea declare ■ th Union has car fully prepared for thi1 n• and call d it w bout pr senting any 1••• 1ri vance, without a ing any de ands, without atte ptiag to toll• the us al processes of bargaining. !6111 •f ••••..,, Company' side the Onio · v r ion. The hav go 8 on to aay that tber has that Union, squat 1 a aaong th 2 h hav been back of work aaya tbea troubles Union the officer, o adaini ■ tr tor. charge, t, • •irtually d. lhen union were ed, Pittebur1h, b ea the ot a pac company, and ottioer r a that it ot ands of of ■eat. At Detroit, fourt a lube yard• hafe be •truck for ao ■ tiae, and last Tuesday eaploy ea oft U.S. Bubber Co panJ walked out. Their reason was that the Coapany had diacharg d twelve of their fellow •■ploy 88 • 4iacb rged thea at the request of th Union. For th pait two days, Ar Y offic ra have been driving aro d Detroit in sound trucks, 1 ploring rubber work re to a11r gard the picket lines, which kept fifty- iae • dr 4 ••• idle for ten days. As a result, •ore than a thou a work ra crossed the picket lines today ad• t back to • r.k. CBI A - There · not auch time for news about China tonight, exce t the winning of amyung. a hundred and fifty miles northeast of Canton. amyun as one of t elven places wher our peopl once had air bases. The Japa now have just four ot the el •• 1 ft. However, the Jape have won 10 e aucceaa in the Pro•ince l••*• •• of Hunan, where the7 have dri n e aatwar4 eighty · 1ea in two daya. lIR WAR --- -- The bombing of Japan goes on with sore and aore violence. The ~ikado'a cities, aost of them, are already flatter than Cologne, Berlia and other German centers. So says General Jiaa, Dnolittle, adds that the mass air raids now being planne . d f■a will reduce the subjects of the likado to a natioa of rice growers and goat herders -- a nation without ho11es. The Stars and Stripes were taised today oYer Doolittle's headquarters on Okinawa, which aake1 that island the official ~ase of the Eighth Air Force. General Jta111 told newapaperaen that he •~eots eventually to have something like a thousand B-291 on ot·nawa, as well as all his other planes. In fact, he foresees . the time when five thouaand plan of all types will be over Japan each day. Although the 8th will have onl1 eight airfields on Okinawa, as coapared to aixtf-five he had in England. ntwertheleaa, Doolitt••a squadrons of the skies, when they get 1oing, will dr~p A R A - 2 -- - about th s me tonnage as thy did in Europe. When? W 11, along in Au ust. Doolittle agrees w·th Vic Ad ir 1 cCain, who says the J pa are saving thei plan a a n ilota for the peak moment of their emergency. Jimmy Doolittle also remarked: • It 's a lot ea sier to l e ad the boys in than to tell 'e11 to4 ° and A do it.• And he added regretfuU,: " hat's the way it is with me now. As one gets olde1 and acquires aore military information, his superiors keep hi ■ on the ground -- out of combat.• - -o - - Today a> me three-hundred....and-f if t7 B-29s attacked three more Jap cities and dropped two thousan~ two hundred tons of incendiary bombs. Also, more than five hundred land -b ased pl . s of lesser size backed up the B-29s. - - o --- Ten Jap torpedo planes, by the way, •t•cked Halsey's fleet; and four of th ten we~• shot AI W A!!_ _ - - do w n. Theo he s ran. -- o- - And h er e's the score for T esday's battle: Twelve hundreJ of our c rri r plan put twenty Jap warships out of ction -- at least th t many, includi• three battleships, six carrie rs , five Jap cru·sers, and four of their destroye r s. J n's l ea fo r ore l enient surretder terms ,as answ r d to da y · n a spectacular proclamation issued ~ fro• Potsdam by President Truman, .x--Prime Minister ' ~ ~ 4 linsto (.;hurch1l~~ Generalissimo Chiang Iai-shek. It stated he ter m of the ~llies in no uncertain language The terms are. Unconditional surren er. f a l l ar ■ed forces. lext, the llies to have occupation zones t• . any place in Japanese territ ry that the Allies decide. The punishment of all war criminals and the coaplete destruction of the leaders df the entire war clique of Japan. A so, Japan aust give up all territories gaine4 b7 conquest or any other means whatsoever since Eighteen linety-Five, the date of the China-J~panese war. That would mean Iorea and Formosa. The final condition,~ the confining of f main ho ■e islands of Japanese sovereignty to the our Shik k with a few other Bon ■ hu, Hokkaido, (yushu and O u, • ••aller is lands. 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