4 JUNE 1937, Page 3

Both Mr. Attlee and Sir Archibald Sinclair have added cubits

to their stature since assuming the leadership of their respective parties. In particular, they have both come to excel on formal and ceremonial occasions, and the tributes which they paid to the late Prime Minister at the beginning of Monday's proceedings were entirely worthy of the occasion. Moreover, they were obviously expressing the minds of their followers. No one who was present could doubt that the passing of Mr. Baldwin from the House of Commons is as deeply and genuinely regretted by his bitterest opponents as by his own followers and colleagues.