Talk:Hugh MacDiarmid

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• It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
  • http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ubuVSQ9pHkAJ:www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/mi5-and-the-search-for-poetic-justice-1.43667+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk states "Many of the documents released by the National Archives date from the war years, but it is clear MacDiarmid was under surveillance much earlier. One informant's note from a London meeting of the Communist Party in 1931 reported on a lecture given by MacDiarmid on The Essentials of Scottish Nationalism. It quoted the poet as telling his audience: "It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies."