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- ↑ Hugh MacDiarmid,"New Selected Letters",pp.314,539
- ↑ H. J. Hanham,Scottish nationalism,p.175
- 1 2 "History of the SNP",Aberdeen SNP
- ↑ Jean-Michel Guieu and Christophe Le Dréau,Le «Congress de l'Europe»àLa Haye,1948-2008,p.181
- ↑ Labour Party Yearbook,1947-8,p.340
- ↑ Revue Canadienne Des Études Sur Le Nationalisme,p.23
- ↑ James Mitchell,Strategies for self-government:the campaigns for a Scottish Parliament,p.94
- ↑ "Scottish nationalists claim victory", Ottawa Citizen ,6 April 1954,p.42