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...Scottish-born Dr. Mackay promptly issued a press statement warning against "a new form of idolatry" threatening the U.S. This, he said, is the "passionate, unreflective opposition to the Communist demon [which] is coming to be regarded as the one and only true expression of Americanism, and even of Christianity. It is proper to abhor Communism. Communism is an evil-let there be no mistake about that. But the spirit to which I refer, this new cult of negation, is something quite different...
...Sultan, an old Oxonian, had no reason, especially in his personal history, to like British officials, or planters, or Singapore's British businessmen. They had not openly objected to his marriage back in 1930 to Scottish-born Helen Wilson (after he had shed an unspecified number of Moslem wives, and she had shed a husband who happened to be the Sultan's personal physician), but they left him in no doubt about their views of his method of divorcing Helen. In the traditional Moslem manner, the Sultan called it off by saying "Talak [I divorce you]" the required...
Died. Philip Murray, 66, Scottish-born coal miner who went to the pits when he was ten, in 1936 became chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and in 1940 president of the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in a San Francisco hotel room (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...interruption was as welcome as a short snort at sundown. All day the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg last week, had been debating Europe's chronic dollar deficit, and at length Britain's Scottish-born Robert Boothby took the floor: "We can expand, I think, the export of certain specialties to the U.S. . . In this respect my own country is rather fortunate. In Scotland we manufacture the highest quality tweeds and we make the highest quality whisky, the best whisky in the world...
Died. Dr. Andrew Cowper Lawson, 91, professor emeritus (of geology and mineralogy) at the University of California; after long illness; in San Leandro, Calif. An authority on earthquakes, Scottish-born Dr. Lawson attracted nationwide attention in 1949, when, at the age of 87, he became the father of a son ("It's nothing, it happens all the time. I don't see why old men should be debarred from having families...