Leaders

(British Commonwealth of Nations)

The Parliamentary Socialist (Labor) Party once more re-elected as their leader, last week, that capable and kindly Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald, the only Laborite ever to become Prime Minister of England.

Once more secure in leadership, Mr. MacDonald led a savage attack in the Commons last week upon Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, charging that he "disregarded the decencies of public life" when he recently refused to enter debate in defense of his coal policy (TIME, Nov. 28). Finally the Laborites introduced, last" week, a motion censuring the Government which was automatically voted down by the Conservative majority 347 to 142.

Placid Leader Baldwin did not thereafter greatly bestir himself, last week, except to take delivery of a mammoth "Peace Letter" signed by "128,770 British citizens all above 16 years of age" who stated ominously that they "will hereafter refuse to render war service to any government."