FOOLISH POSTURING . . ."
Sw,—Many of your readers arc in your debt for your characterisation of Dr. Maclntyre's defiance of Parliamentary usages, with its humiliating sequel. Doubtless you will agree that something yet more serious lies behind that posturing. If anything is written across the sky today, it is the fact that, in this tragic world, what is wanted most of all is the spirit of goodwill that will bring men together ; yet it is' in this time when the unspeakable ruin of Europe proclaims the evil and -wickedness of race animosity that Motherwell has used its suffrage to express the exuberance of a selfish and egotistical nationalism.
There is no excuse for it at all. The English people are generous and tolerant to an amazing degree. They took Scotland into partnership in their growing empire, and, as so many Scotchmen have publicly admitted, they invariably give a welcome to those who come over the Border. But from the Scotch there has been no adequate response. Jealousy and ill-will have constantly been a feature of the Scottish attitude towards England. It will be an unhappy day for Scotland if the English people resolve that the partnership shall be dissolved and that Westminster
shall be for the English.—Yours faithfully, ROWLAND D. LLOYD. Oaktree House, West End, March, Cambs.
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