三月二十八日晚上,英国下议院以一票的多数,通过了保守党提出的对工党政府的不信任案。于是工党政府宣布,四月七日解散议会,并将于五月三日举行大选。两党挂帅竞选的是卡拉汉先生和撒切尔夫人。詹姆斯·卡拉汉(James Callaghan)于一九一二年三月生于英格兰南部的名港朴茨茅斯。他是在贫困中长大的。他的父亲在皇家海军里当一名小小的士官,在卡拉汉九岁的时候便去世了。小卡拉汉在十六岁上就结束了他的正规学业,次年进了一个地方税务机关当办事员。他积极参加税务职工会的活动,一九三六年被选为“国内税务职工联合会”的副书记。一九三八年他与奥得莱·伊丽莎白·莫尔顿小姐结婚。第二次世界大战爆发后,他在皇家海军任上尉, On the night of March 28, the British House of Commons passed the Conservative Party’s no confidence in the Labor government with a one-vote majority. The Labor government announced that it will dissolve the parliament on April 7 and hold the general election on May 3. The two parties running for president are Mr. Callaghan and Mrs Thatcher. James Callaghan was born in Portsmouth, a famous port city in southern England in March 1922. He grew up in poverty. His father, a small sergeant in the Royal Navy, died when Callaghan was nine years old. Callahan ended his formal studies at the age of sixteen and went into a local tax office the next year as a clerk. He actively participated in the activities of tax trade unions and was elected as deputy secretary of the “Federation of Domestic Tax Staff and Workers” in 1936. In 1938 he was married to Miss Odile Elizabeth Morton. After the outbreak of World War II, he was captain of the Royal Navy,