THE WEN
SIR,—Colin H. MacKay is, of course, joking. His barbed cabers of criticism tossed at London and Londoners in your columns (March 16) are, I am sure, gems of Gaelic humour, Well, I mean, how could anyone living in the dark satanic city of Glasgow seriously presume to condemn London as 'one of the ugliest cities in the world'? How could any honest Glaswegian describe the monstrously grotesque buildings in central Glasgow as 'magnificent'—unless of course he was wearing rose-coloured spectacles and had his tongue in his cheek?
How could anyone scorn snobbery when he lives in a town where most of the inhabitants refuse even to admit to the existence of their country's capital, only fifty iniks away—the by comparison architec- turally perfect Edinburgh?
How could anyone who has seen (as I have seen) the forlorn families squeezed into the squalid ten- ements of Glasgow's slum sores begin to criticise London's overcrowding?
Yes, Cohn H. MacKay, you must be joking. . . . But if you are not, then I can only presume that your letter is more of the hysterical tirade of derision that inferiority-complexed Scots love to pour .upon the heads of harmless Sassenachs.
RODNEY A. BURBECK 2 Sydney Place, SW7
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