Sir : Maybe Professor Brogan's ancestral memory, too, is hard
at work.
Instead of crediting the poor reception given to Mr Tam Dalyell's thorough-going attempts to blacken the name , of the Argylls to the essential mean-spiritedness of the attack, the . professor (9 August) seems to imply that Mr. Dalyell is bound to be disliked by many. Scots because he is descended. from a. dragoon who was noted for his terror tactics against men and women who didn't want 'Mass said in their lugs.' In fact, Scots attitudes to Mr.Dalyell truly reflect the present popularity of causes he espouses, and, if he presses.on with his newest campaign, for no increase in toll charges for the Forth Road Bridge, he will gain as much sup- port as, before, there was opposition to his attempts to prove th-at 'The Argylls are. all out
of step.' . , . William Alton 25 Stonehouse Road, Strathaven, Lanarkshire
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