The exploitation of the grievances of what after all are
a comparatively small minority of the electors roused enthusiasm in the Labour strongholds, but it definitely repelled potential support in the areas where employment is good and the standard of living has risen.' The Labour Party continuously and grossly overeoloured the picture. There was a strong case, for instance, to be made against the way in which the Government had handled the Disarma Ment Conference, but to placard the constituencies with the infamous poster—" Election crosses or wooden crosses ? -L-4Iid much to destroy it. The electors are far more sensible and shrewd than the Labour Party imagine. They knew that the cry—" A vote for a Tory is a vote for War "—was as discreditable as any that has ever been used in an election, and scores of thousands who might in ordinary circumstances have voted for the Labour Party came to the deliberate conclusion that an opposition that employed such tactics were • not fit. and proper, persons to • govern the country.
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