"FOOLISH POSTURING . . .
SIR,—Your adverse editorial comment on the unusual entry of the first Scottish Nationalist M.P. into Parliament indicates a misunderstanding of the issue involved. Dr. MacIntyre had given a pledge to his Mother- well constituents that he would be independent of London-controlled political parties. Accordingly he tried to take the consistent course of declining the sponsorship of M.P.'s belonging to those parties ; and although personally I disagree with Dr. MacIntyre on points of some substance, it does seem to me that in the circumstances he could do little else. Reading Hansard carefully reveals that Dr. MacIntyre behaved with decorum and restraint (" Foolish Posturing" indeed! ) and that a large number of responsible M.P.'s of all parties fully appreciated his predicament. The London-conuol of the dominant political parties is a matter of considerable moment in Scotland, and is, in fact, one of the causes of the rise of the Nationalist movement which, as you say, "has been making steady progress for many years."—I arts, yours faithfully, 49 George Square, Edinburgh, 8. ROBERT HUFtD.
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