Scotsman Archive: Home rule demand 24 April, 1950

A THOUSAND delegates at the fourth meeting of the Scottish National Assembly in Edinburgh on Saturday agreed, with only three dissentients, that Commissioners should be appointed to proceed to London to ask the Government and Opposition to negotiate on self-government for Scotland.

It was also agreed that if the Government and the Opposition refused to meet the Commissioners, the King should be petitioned; and it was further agreed to approach the Dominion Governments to inform them of Scotland's wish for Home Rule. Signatures to the Covenant now number 1,236,000. An organ recital of Scots airs proceeded as the delegates gathered in the large hall, and it was early apparent that this fourth meeting of the Assembly, while it included many prominent personalities in various branches of the Nationalist movement, was much more representative of the public life of Scotland than any of the previous assemblies.

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