THE STONE OF DESTINY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19481, 30 November 1928, Page 11

THE STONE OF DESTINY.

TO THE EDITOB 07 . THE MESS. Sir, —lt has ' occurred to me thatsome uninformed. people may take seriously the sensational cable in yesterday's papers, concerning an alleged Scottish plot to steal the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey. I "do not guarantee' the sanity of all the Scots in London, but it is my duty to assure any doubting reader that" if there i 3 a "Scots' Club" in Lond,on which has provided a "Nationalist" offshoot of such peculiar tendencies, this offshoot can be. in no way connected with the genuine Nationalist Home J'ule Party in Scotland formed by the amalgamation of three out of four of the leading Home Rule societies, and favoured by the adhesion of many members of the fourth; Between' the Nationalist Party thus formed' and -the as yet separate fourth body,' the Scottish Home Rule Association, .there are the same culturaland educative -aims,and if, political methods differ, they, still remain political in the British sense and not Fascist or, Bqlshevik. The recently formed 'Scottish 'Homo Rule Association in ChristchurCh is in close communication with the older Association at - Home, and-; among the literature received from" its executive are several : numbers of the "Scots Independent,'.' organ- of the ' - new Nationalist . Party, together with the Association's own organ, "Scottish Home Rule.'.'- In; neither paper-is -there the least indication qf so peculiar, a complex as that which would lie behind attempts to raid' Westminster.' Abbey. The cable reads apocryphal in - every line; demented indeed would any BritoiV b'e. who took His cue for national freedom from the-methods of Fascism; Bnd the reader ~i s soipejipw, reminded that there is an; election campaign in progress at Home.—Yours, etc., JESSIE MACKAY, Secretary, Christchurch Branch of the Scottish Home Rule Association,. Cashmere Hills. Christchurch, November 23th.