""Hamish was never a member of the Communist Party""
"He was a communist who left the party over Hungary in '56. He was offered an OBE and turned it down. He was a Republican who fought regularly and passionately with me over my view of Charles Edward Stewart being as much use to Scotland as a dose of cholera. He was the anti-Nazi who spoke fluent German, loved German culture and raised eyebrows when his "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica" talked of German soldiers with compassion and almost affection."
Dick Gaughan
LINKS IN THE CHAIN
"As Gaughan was a personal friend of Hamish's, I would prefer to accept his views on the matter rather than your hysterical claptrap."
Unquote.
Jim Carroll