Nationalism and Fascism in Scotland
"Arthur Donaldson and others"
Extract:
" .. The original leader of the SNP was the innocuous figure of Alexander
McEwan, who was even knighted by the King for his public service. But he
was insufficiently Scottish for the rank and file. So in 1936 he was
bumped out in favour of one Andrew Dewar Gibb. And let us be in no doubt
about it, this man was a fascist.
Obviously, there were relatively few Jews in Scotland so Gibb seized on
another target; Irish Catholics. You don't need to take my word for
this, he wrote a number of books about the danger of Irish Catholics to
the well-being of Scotland. And just like the wee man with the
moustache, since outright racism needed a rationale, he seized not on
their origin but their religion as their "fault". He was particularly
outraged that "these people .."
Ian S Smart
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