Letter From London

MR. POWELL’S BLOCKBUSTER

Fifteen years ago Britain had virtually no color problem at all: now she is within foreseeable distance of having a problem on the American scale. Throughout the latter Fifties and early Sixties West Indians, Indians and Pakistanis poured in unrestricted. They were all Commonwealth citizens, and the dream of a multiracial Commonwealth ranked second only to the United Nations as the favorite liberal illusion. So liberal Conservatives, no less than Socialists, cried “Shame!” at any suggestion that immigration ought to be checked.

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MR. POWELL’S BLOCKBUSTER

Fifteen years ago Britain had virtually no color problem at all: now she is within foreseeable distance of having a problem on the American scale. Throughout the latter Fifties and early Sixties West Indians, Indians and Pakistanis poured in unrestricted. They were all Commonwealth citizens, and the dream of a multiracial Commonwealth ranked second only to the United Nations as the favorite liberal illusion. So liberal Conservatives, no less than Socialists, cried “Shame!” at any suggestion that immigration ought to be checked.