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...Monte Carlo he usually bets on red because he has a "preference for the optimistic side of things." Among many vigorous yarns about the War, funniest (unintentionally) is "My Spy Story," in which he tells how he discovered and demolished a searchlight on the tower of a Scottish castle, considerably upsetting an innocent dinner party to do it. ". . . But the most extraordinary part in my opinion is yet to come. There was nothing in it at all." Post-War conditions have bruised his optimism, but it is still unbowed. He can still look on the bright side of such threatening...
...Edinburgh restless Scotsmen held the first regular caucus of their new Scottish Self-Government party, elected as its leader stodgy James Graham, the excessively aristocratic 6th Duke of Montrose...
...revolutionist, His Grace emphasized that Scottish secession is not his object but solemnly declared: "The question of self-government for Scotland has grown from a purling stream into a roaring cataract...
...Duke has his way Scotland will receive a sort of Dominion status with its own Parliament and George V may consent to the gesture of a Scottish coronation at which he would wear, for the first time, the Crown of Scotland, an ancient Stuart treasure once worn by Robert the Bruce and now preserved in Edinburgh Castle...
GRAHAM (R.B. Cunninghame) Scottish Stories...