The title of Ewan's book comes from a song by the most prolific anti-nuclear writer Thurso Berwick (geographical nom-de-plume of Glasgow teacher Morris Blythman).

At an early CND protest in the Holy Loch (what an ironic position for the US nuclear base, near Faslane!), the anti-nuclear supporters were 'attacking' the US base ship Proteus in canoes when Captain Lanning contemptuously dismissed them as Eskimoes -- little did he understand the power of Glasgow humour to deflate and eventually demolish the "justification" for the American presence!