Sta,—In your last issue Mr. R. E. Muirhead, in a
letter whose terms we in Scotland know almost by heart, lamented the past failure of Scottish Home Rule Bills even when sup- ported,. ostensibly at least, by many Scots MPs. For encouragement, he might consider the history of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, Administrative devolution and the eclipse of the Irish Question have progressively weakened the Scottish home ruler's case; but in the present political climate at Westminstet if enough Scottish candidates were returned who, at a General Election, had made Home Rule a prime issue, 1 think they would have their way. In the present political climate in Scotland, on the other hand, a measnrable demand for such candidates does not appear
to Sir Compton ompton Mackenzie also had some observations to make on my article, ' Scots Stormont Rejected,' in which I had described nationalist reactions to the Report of the Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs as ' peevish.' Your readers may now have seen what I meant.
Sir Compton resurrected the question of assessing the precise political significance of his election by undergraduates as Rector of Glasgow University in 1931. That was before My time. But since the war the choice of Mr. Alistair Sim for the same position in the University of Edinburgh in 1948, and of Mr. Jimmy Edwards at Aberdeen in 1952, must have proved equally puzzling to those eager to discern, from evidence of this kind, ' the way youth is going•' in Scotland.—Yours faithfully,
Bearsden, Dumbartonshire
ALEC STURROCK
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