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Patrick Joseph Dollan, Lord Provost of Glasgow, told Glasgow schoolboys that he had been a pacifist during World War I, was now a "repentant sinner": "I am beginning to wonder why it was that a good many of us in years gone by scorned the idea of training the young to defend their country...
...Eire Italian confectionaries were emptied. In Glasgow students threatened resident Italians. In London the squalid, Italianate Soho district was a scene of riot...
...staged in some part to make the soldiers at the front feel that people at home were doing their bit. Doubtless the British measures contained a modicum of morale, too. But Robert Spear Hudson, Britain's Secretary of Overseas Trade, was not leading cheers when he told a Glasgow audience last week...
...Glasgow applicant: "The Bible and Tolstoy led me to the conclusion that war is sinful and futile...
Actually, this border Scot had already packed five noteworthy careers into his amazingly versatile life, was fully equipped with energy and brains to start another at 60. A poor boy (his father was a Presbyterian parson), he had put himself through Glasgow University and Oxford with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned...