The Liberals have never done better for themselves than when
they chose Sir Archibald Sinclair to be their leader. Since the retirement of Lord Baldwin he is the most attractive figure of all the party heads. He has added greatly to his stature as a Parliamentarian and his popularity in the country is increasing. Among his followers the intellectual level is a high one ; necessarily so, since a man is not elected as a Liberal nowadays without some unusual personal qualifications. Their failing is that they are too sweetly reasonable. They tend to become a party of specialists and to neglect the obvious necessity of justifying their exist- ence on the grounds of fundamental principle. In British politics a third party with no hope of an independent majority can only survive by being perpetually on the attack.
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