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...were to accept this proposition then virtually any real estate in the Commonwealth...would qualify for wholesale clearance," he added...
...potential outcry at home against Britain's moral obligations to the Asians abroad, Heath has decided to bend to political reality. Thus the rules will reduce to an "inescapable minimum"-specifically, 3,000 people per year-any further emigration of British passport holders from so-called "new Commonwealth" nations, all of which have black or Asian majorities, and a total of about 241,000 such passport holders. At the same time, the door will be left open to some 13 million mostly white members of "old Commonwealth" nations: Australia, New Zealand and Canada...
Asians and Africans are already feeling the squeeze; even tourists and businessmen from new Commonwealth nations on temporary visits to Britain find it difficult to pass through immigration control as officials anticipate the new rules. "It is nearly at the point where a colored man in this country can't have visitors," complains a senior government official involved with race relations and immigration policy. "The chances are he won't get in at all, and if he does it will only be after a very embarrassing grilling...
Friendship, tradition, history and language still unite Australia with the British Crown and Commonwealth. The big question for Australians these days is how long the old ties will last under the independence-minded Labor government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Arriving in London last week. Lionel Murphy, the Attorney General of Australia ("You will notice we no longer say the Commonwealth of Australia," announced his press aide), demanded the removal of "all the residual legislative, executive and judicial authority over Australia." These ties, he said, were demeaning "relics of colonialism." Murphy was referring specifically to two archaic legal technicalities...
...London British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home attacked Amin's latest moves as "contemptuous by any standards of civilized behavior" and "incompatible with the behavior expected within the Commonwealth partnership." He demanded guarantees of "prompt, adequate and effective compensation" for all British property affected and implied that Britain would take whatever legal action it could against Amin's government. In an interview he was asked why the British government did not retaliate by attaching Uganda's sterling reserves in London. "Because they haven't any," he replied...