For the exiled Scot the longing to come home. even for only a very short spell, will be intensified during the next few months. 1938 will be a gala year in Scotland. There will be so much for him to see, to do and to remember, He has read of the forthcoming Empire Exhibition—this second Wembley—and he has been perhaps a little incredulous of the magnificance of the project. Let a follo" Scot assure him that if the vision was ambitious the achievement will be historic, I have ji t concluded a tour of the Exhibition, What was just six months ago well-ordered public park is now a y in the making—city of palaces and pavilions, lakes and cascades, spacious avenues and fairyland lighting. So gigantic is its scope that the bird's eye view alone enables it to be encompassed as a whole, For this a tower on a hill provides the necessary vantage point.
This tower is itself a spectacular feature. Three hundred feet high—the height of Big Ben—it is erected on an eminence in the centre of the park an all-metal sky-scraper, graceful as a minaret, Observation galleries extend like aeroplane wings from its summit, from them fully 600 people can simultaneously view the panorama below—the British Empire in miniature, conde sed in Bellahouston Park's 175 acre: the support not only of the British Government but also of the Governments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Irish Free State—all of whom are building their own pavilions—and of Burma and the Colonial Empire, It is not, therefore, for the sights alone that the exile must come home.
He must be here to witness and share in Scotland's triumph. Glasgow will not only stage a historic exposition of the Empire's achievements and potentialities; it will for six months be the meeting place of the powerful of the earth. her status as the Second City recognised, Within the Exhibition walls, too, the exile will be able to acquire an impression of Scotland's past, present and future ily otherwise obtained.
The two Scottish pavilions will contain the distilled essence of Scottish urban and rural life, while mural paintings by the younger school of Scottish artists will depict our-romantic history, our national sports and pastimes and our culture development, The old Scottish masters, too, will be represented: the Palace of Arts will house the finest collection. of their works ever gathered under one roof,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.