“IN ECLIPSE”
SCOTS ARE INSULTED LAUDER SLATED LONDON, Dec. 14. “In his reminiscences, Sir Harry Lauder, who has done more titan any living man to lower and vulgarise the popular conception of Scotland, ' shows how, he actually cultivated a reputation for niggardliness as part of his stock-in-trade,” writes Andrew -Dewar Gibb in'“Scotland in Eclipse.” “In the face oil such revolting abjeefness of spirit, criticism can but' hang its head and be dumb,” he says. “So impervious are most Scotsmen to the claims of decency that, without protest, British Government departmehls exploit tRe supposed national' failings in public announcements. In 1929 the air: mail t 6 Gidia was advertised with a picture of a Scot in a tam-o’-shanter weighing a .letter and exclaiming: ‘Hoots, it's a guid saxpennyworth !’ The Postmaster-Gen-eral .was then a Scotsman.”
Sir Harry Lauder lias declined to com ment on the book.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 7
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