Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classical history, has emerged as his own kind of politician-prophet. In the process, he has stirred a furor both in Britain and abroad. For what Powell sees-and speaks for-is the alarm, fear and resentment of the white British toward the African and Asian peoples of the Commonwealth who have emigrated to Britain...
Powell's pronouncements-and the British sentiment that they reflect-intruded into last week's London meeting of leaders from the 28 Commonwealth nations, of which 22 have predominantly nonwhite populations. Offended by articles in the British press that portrayed the behavior of Asian immigrants as uncouth and unclean, Pakistani Foreign Minister Arshad Husain rapped Britain for practicing discrimination. Rising in Britain's defense, Prime Minister Harold Wilson pointed to the "fiercely penal" anti-discrimination laws that his Labor Government has sponsored. Beyond that, Wilson could do little except plead: "Do not hold me responsible...
Eleven Languages. Despite its excesses, Powell's campaign does make one legitimate point. Today's overcrowded, economically laggard Britain can no longer afford to make good on the old colonial "myth that we wrote into law" and grant entrance to every Commonwealth emigrant who seeks to settle there. It is a realization that both major British parties share; in fact, under a 1962 law, immigration is already severely limited. It is restricted mainly to persons whose relatives already reside in Britain and to those who have received official work permits, which are issued at the rate of about...
...right-wing Tories in money matters, demanding the abolition of government fiscal controls and proposing to cut income taxes in half and reduce government spending drastically. On foreign policy issues, he is a devout "Little Englander," who would end all of Britain's commitments beyond Europe, dissolve the Commonwealth and cut loose Rhodesia to go the route of former colonies in America. On a few domestic questions he is mildly progressive: Powell was among those Tories who voted with Labor M.P.s to abolish capital punishment and liberalize laws on homosexuality...
...more parochial of the Commonwealth's citizens may be happy that Volpe is no longer directing the state's affairs. But the ex-contractor has gone on to bigger things and the nation is that much worse...