Yours for Scotland
Sir: Your correspondents (17 November) should endeavour to take a broader view of the implication of Scottish (and Welsh) nationalism.
As Mr Ludovic Kennedy so pertinently states (10 November), the unification of England, Scot- land and Wales provided the firm base from which the phenomenal overseas expansion of the activities of the unified peoples was launched. If now, having already surrendered the fruits of that expansion, we can steel ourselves to dismantle the base, the endeavours by any one constituent of the base, pursued on its own behalf only, to secure admit- tance to the European community might be im- mensely reinforced. This would seem to apply particularly to England—if England is in fact the sole segment of these off-shore islands that con- vincingly belongs to Europe.
In the circumstances of the present day it is realities such as the foregoing which are of signi- ficance and which ought to be the concern of those who can see the relationships of the past as a guide to the relationships of the future.
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