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Show EDITORIAL: Results Of The British Election The British election campaign is now over at least temporarily tempor-arily with the Labor party sporting a precarious majority in the House of Commons. As the parties line up in' the wake of the election, the opposition in the House of Commons, if bolstered by a few Labor deserters, de-serters, could out - vote "H i s Majesty's government" on any controversial issue. Under the British parliamentary parliamen-tary system, it is customary to call a general election anytime the party in power fails to main tain a majority on a major issue. is-sue. Prime Minister Clement Attlee may be compelled to call another election in the near future, fu-ture, if he cannot obtain a vote of confidence on the first close issue arising1 in Parliament. American state department officials of-ficials are somewhat upset over the outcome of the election. They had hoped-for a clear-cut majority for one side or the other, oth-er, as an unstable British gov- ernment will have difficulty taking a determined stand on explosive international affairs. Lately, Washington and London have' not seen ey&to-eye on many international problems recognition of Red China is a good example and, if unable to depend on the support of her principal ally, Great Britain, the United States could easily find herself in an' embarrassing world environment. Domestically, the British election elec-tion can hardly be called a barometer ba-rometer on American politics. Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, is naive in assuming the election elec-tion outcome heralds a worldwide world-wide trend toward conservatism, even though Socialist planners have recently suffered additional addition-al setbacks in Australia and New Zealand. As Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Humph-rey, of Minnesota, pointed out, "If Winston' Churchhill were running for office in this country, coun-try, he would be classified as a dangerous Socialist." Church-hill Church-hill has, in fact, often been accused ac-cused of trying to out-socialize the Socialists in his insistan'ce on a bigger and better social welfare program. Neither can the more radical liberals rejoice at the English show. Socialism was on trial, and the English people acquitted it with the barest of majorities. The Fair Dealers are not open to attack. They can always say, "So what? The election is meaningless mean-ingless to us. We aren't Socialists." Social-ists." All in all, in spite of a worldwide world-wide trend toward or away from conservatism, our fall election campaign will have to be fought out on problems typically American, Amer-ican, and it should be as interesting, inter-esting, and the results as far reaching, as the energetic contest con-test recently completed by our British cousins. In the meantime, mean-time, let's hope we can depend on continued British support in the International arena. GW1I |