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PROVOST Robert Curran presided at the annual "Scotland's Day" demonstration of the Scottish National Party on Saturday at Stirling. There was a procession, headed by a pipe band, from Stirling Station to the King's Park, where during the demonstration there was a display of Scottish country dancing and also pipe band selections and community singing. Provost Curran said that the party's objectives could be defined in six words – they stood for individual freedom, national independence and national co-operation – great social and moral issues as well as material issues. Some people in Scotland today were moving in favour of devolution, believing half a loaf to be better than no bread; but the National Party had no desire to see a so-called Scottish Prime Minister going across to one of our Commonwealth countries and being told he was no more important than the Lord Mayor of London.

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