13 JUNE 1931, Page 17

SCOTLAND TO-DAY

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In Major Elliot's article on " Scotland To-day " in the Spectator of May 30th he says that the question of Home Rule in the widest sense is not really a political question, but mainly an economic and cultural one. Many Scotsmen are to-day interested in the rebuilding of the national life, and most of them now realize that any movement to this end must take account of economics and culture. But surely, in an age when the interaction of politics and economics is fully admitted, it is utterly fallacious to rule out politics from the sphere within which national pretensions may be encouraged.—I am, Sir, &c., ANDREW DEWAR GIBS. Caledonian Club, London, S.W.