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Tribute to the Scottish banks for their aid in broadening the basis of our economy by nursing and nourishing new enterprise in Scotland was paid by Lord Bilsland in Glasgow last night. He was speaking at the bicentenary dinner of the Ship Bank, now incorporated into the Union Bank of Scotland, and he claimed that the past half-century had provided a test of the British banking system from which it had emerged with greater credit than that of any other country in the world. The toast of the Union Bank of Scotland and the Ship Bank, 1750, was submitted by Lord Cooper Lord Justice General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session. The two centuries which separated 1750 from 1950, he said, were probably the longest two centuries in recorded history. We were further from Colin Dunlop as he sat in his shabby office in the Bridgegate than he was from Julius Caesar. The assemblage that night had gathered to find an inspiration in the vanishing panorama of the tobacco lords.

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