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...mood of the country proved to be markedly different from the findings of most analysts. The Tory cause was aided by two fears that haunt Britain's lower and middle classes: the rising cost of living and the specter of racial tension, a theme vehemently exploited by Tory Rightist Enoch Powell (see box, page 21). But the most important factor was the drop in the electoral turnout, which was the lowest in postwar history; small turnouts almost invariably hurt Labor and favor the better-organized and more strongly motivated Tories...
Heath's immediate foreign policy task will be the negotiations that start next week on Britain's application to join the Common Market. Among his domestic concerns, Heath will face the challenge of healing Britain's race problem while the racist oratory of Enoch Powell echoes in his ears. Some Britons believe that the country's race tension will subside as immigrants become more anglicized and bettereducated. Many sociologists are convinced, however, that the crisis will gather for the next decade or two as the sons of ill-educated colored immigrants graduate from British schools and start to compete with...
...HAVE been heard, heard as no man in this country has been heard in 30 years." When Conservative M.P. Enoch Powell uttered those words two years ago, they seemed less prophetic than boastful. Yet last week, in the aftermath of one of the most stunning political upsets in recent British elections, Powell's words seemed to ring oddly true. In winning his seat in the Midlands town of Wolverhampton, he improved on his own 1966 election total by 22%. More than that, he had given Britain a new household word: Powetlism...
...Britain's 630 electoral districts. The issue is race. It is a problem the British largely ignored until a decade of Immigration from Asia and the Caribbean has pushed the nonwhite population to a present total of 1.3 million. The man who raised the issue was Tory Enoch Powell, Harold Macmillan's Minister of Health. In 1968 Powell prophesied that rivers of blood would flow in Britain if colored immigration was allowed to continue. More recently, he demanded citizenship legislation to differentiate between those who "belong" in Britain and those who do not, as well...
They put up a brave front, but the city's white leaders now admit that they have lost communication with Wichita blacks. Says Mayor Enoch: "I used to have good contacts with-how shall I say it without giving offense?-the more stable element there. Now it's far more difficult. It's a disastrous thing." These days Wichita blacks have trouble communicating with each other. A. Price Woodard. the incoming black mayor, insists: "I have faith in the white community. We are too prone to complain." But other blacks see Woodard as more of a white...