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Willie MacRae (18 May 1923 – 7 April 1985) was a Scottish naval officer, lawyer, orator, politician and anti-nuclear campaigner. In the Second World War he served in the British Army and then the Royal Indian Navy. He supported the Indian independence movement and for much of his life was active in the Scottish National Party (SNP). MacRae is remembered for his mysterious death, in which his car crashed in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands and he was shot in the head with a revolver. The official verdict was undetermined. ==Life== MacRae was born in Carron, Falkirk, where his father was an electrician. MacRae edited a local newspaper in Grangemouth at the same time as reading history at the University of Glasgow, from which he gained a first-class degree. In the Second World War he was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders but transferred to the Royal Indian Navy, in which he became a lieutenant commander and aide-de-camp to Admiral Lord Mountbatten. He supported the Indian independence movement. After the war MacRae returned to the University of Glasgow and graduated again, this time in law.〔 He authored the maritime law of Israel and was an emeritus professor of the University of Haifa. After his death a forest of 3,000 trees was planted in Israel in his memory. MacRae became a solicitor and an SNP activist. In the 1979 General Election he stood for Parliament as the SNP candidate for Ross and Cromarty, where he narrowly lost to the Conservative Hamish Gray. In the same year he contested the SNP leadership, coming third in a three-way contest with 52 votes to Stephen Maxwell's 117 votes and winner Gordon Wilson's 530 votes. Early in the 1980s MacRae "masterminded" a campaign to stop the disposal of nuclear waste in the Mullwharchar area of the Galloway Hills. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Willie MacRae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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