For three days last week WinstonChurchill and his critics in Parliament had at each other. Then Parliament gave him the vote of confidence he asked for464-to-1but it was not confidence without qualifications.
The single opposition vote was cast by lank-haired, intense James Maxton, one of Parliament's three ultra-left Independent Laborites who represent Glasgow's shipyard workers.* More important, 67 of those present did not vote at all. And as far as a large part of Parliament was concerned, the vote was not wholehearted; it just seemed necessary. Afterward Winston Churchill's many critics went right on criticizing.
The vote seemed necessary because,...
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