Foreign News: LABOR LOOKS AHEAD

Time's London office last week sized up Labor's six-month record and its prospects for 1946:

The Labor Party is worried, uncertain of its future, still trying to learn the ways of power. The Tory Party is floundering, all but disintegrating; and it will disintegrate unless it finds a philosophy and a leadership virile enough to offset the inroads of its great defeat. These are the outstanding facts of Great Britain's political scene as deposed Prime Minister Winston Churchill begins his U.S. visit and Parliament readies for its second session under Labor leadership.

Behind these Party troubles are two great national troubles :

Politically, the...

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