SCOTLAND’S LOSS.
the toll of taxation. Speaking to Dundee Rotary Club members, the Duke ot Atholl (piesidont of the National Trust of Scotland) blamed the race of wealthy individuals that had replaced the old Scottish families for disfiguring Scotland’s countryside by creating “monstrosities” in public buildings. The old ‘Scottish families, who bad centuries of culture in their blood, bad succumbed under modern taxation, observed the duke. He did not think that heaven could forgive the architects for the many public buildings, schools and hotels that so disfigured the Scottish towns and countryside.
The saving of the Field of Bannockburn from becoming a building area, the segregation of the clansmen’s graves on Culloden Moor, and the safe custody of the Glenfinnan memorial had at least justified the National Trust’s existence.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 39, 25 November 1938, Page 7
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