The NVA Data Base article was one I found and posted as it appeared to shed light pertinent to the original enquiry. It obviously didn't, no skin of my nose.

As for the Scotsman's archives and the British Library here is what I wrote once you had clarified an earlier question of mine:

GUEST,Observer
Date: 23 Aug 18 - 12:16 PM

Ah, thanks for the explanation. The Scotsman's online archive contains content of the newspaper from 1817, or 1855 UP TO 1950. From 1950 onward you have to pay, hence your trip to the British Library - got it.

Please point out where the "sneering" is identified in that post. Besides McLean, being based, as you are, down in London the British Library would be a damned sight more convenient and wider source for your research than that of The Scotsman archives which I presume are located up in Edinburgh - which makes your choice perfect common sense and I do not believe that I made any reference to you paying, or not paying anything, so you can tuck that new low away as I never made any comment about it at all. Just mark it down as yet another McLean myth, something that has never happened.

The events that you are looking into occurred in 1961, so why were you looking at articles printed in The Scotsman 1971 (YOUR post this thread Jim McLean Date: 23 Aug 18 - 12:54 PM) or was that just a typo.

IF what you have told us is in any way factual we know the following:

1: You were not on the first demo at all, as the first demo was the one made by those English CND protesters in kayaks who tried to impede and interfere with the mooring of the USS Proteus in the Holy Loch on the 3rd March 1961.

2: IF Captain Richard Laning USN had made any comment regarding "Goddam Eskimos" at all, he would have been referring to the protesters in the kayaks who were present when the USS Proteus was coming in to moor on the 3rd March.