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Reports from Scotland last week told the mellowing influence of Polish troops on the weather-tempered Scottish character...
...thousand men-English, Scottish, Canadian, Chinese, and Indian troops, civilian volunteers-faced two full Japanese divisions (30,000 or more). The first Japanese attack pierced the mainland line within 24 hours. Within five days the Japanese penned the outnumbered British on the island, demanded surrender, were refused...
Last week was Hong Kong's second week of siege. The Fragrant Port was hard-pressed on every side. The defending line, held by British, Canadian, Chinese, Scottish and Indian soldiers, threaded shakily across the island, from Mt. Davis in the west, through world-famed Happy Valley Race Course, to Mt. Sai Wan in the east, just off Tathong Channel...
Well to the left of both are the three Independent Labor Party members, most notable of whom is broguish John ("Jock") McGovern, 54, a bull-tempered Scottish Socialist who believes that Dictator Stalin has long since sold Karl Marx and the Workers of the World down the river; who once, when Stalin arrested some Indian Communists as Trotskyists, lambasted Communist Gallacher as "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he does not dare to stand up and defend British subjects...
...Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (Macmillan; $2.50), edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, is a definitive collection of Scottish verse (much of it written in the Scots' language); and the editor, in an introductory essay as prickly with his native thought as a Highland moor is with heather, goes a long way towards putting Scottish poetry into its right place in the total perspective of the world's literature. Scottish poetry, Editor MacDiarmid points out, is capable of being both genuinely literary, and popular with the common people-something that English poetry has never succeeded in being. Editor MacDiarmid makes...