Leader's history

IN all the eulogies of William Wolfe I note a glaring omission (your reports, 20 March). Not once did I see any reference to his perhaps most infamous remarks as SNP leader.

In the early 1980s, at the time of the Pope's visit to Scotland, he labelled the leader of the world's largest Christian religion "an alien". Later, during the Falklands War, he called Argentine a "priest-ridden" country. Of course he is as entitled to his point of view as I am to mine, but he was in a position where his views were seen as reflecting that of the party he led.

Of a generation that saw the SNP develop from what was basically an anti-Irish immigrant party, Mr Wolfe's remarks were perhaps not unusual, but not mentioning them does not make them not exist.

ALEXANDER McKAY

New Cut Rigg

Edinburgh