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...Englishman is tolerant of everything, including intolerance," says a British sociologist. Only up to a point. Last week Britain's Parliament was cracking down on the intolerance that native Britons practice daily against the swelling nonwhite minorities in their midst. Passed in the House of Commons by a vote of 261 to 249 was the second reading of a bill to outlaw discrimination "on the grounds of color, race, or ethnic or national origins" in hotels, restaurants, pubs, theaters, public housing and other places of public accommodation (though not in employment or private housing). Maximum penalty would...
...influx swelled, and wives and families began to immigrate along with students and bachelors, Parliament passed the 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, which for the first time limited the free entry into Britain of Her Majesty's subjects from her outer domains. Even that did not stop it. Aided by loopholes in the law and a high birth rate, the number of nonwhites living in Britain since 1962 has doubled to what is darkly referred to as "the dark million." Nearly half (about 450,000) of them are West Indians, with the remainder about equally divided among Indians, Pakistanis...
England has not one colored policeman, fireman or member of Parliament, and the BBC has only just hired its first Negro reporter; but 40% of the interns, orderlies and nonprofessional workers in Britain's hospitals are colored, 17% of the nurses' aides, and from 20% to 40% of the bus and underground employees in London and Birmingham. On the plus side, West Indian cricket stars have played in English professional leagues, while the fad for American-style (and Negro-based) rock 'n' roll has helped make sultry Shirley Bassey, daughter of an English mother...
...peers' gallery was packed. So were the press gallery, the visitors' gallery, diplomatic and Commonwealth galleries. The floor of the House of Commons was S.R.O.-as it must be, whenever the 630 Members of Parliament want to assemble, since the House still contains only enough seats to comfortably accommodate its 16th century membership of about 450. Everyone had gathered for the debate on Harold Wilson's White Paper proposing a $1.5 billion nationalization of the steel industry (TIME...
...Peking in the immediate future. There is substantial opposition to this policy in influential circles. And Premier Sato himself is a strongly pro-Western conservative leader in the Liberal Democratic Party; he beat the socialist candidate in the last election by a majority of 228-137 in the Diet (Parliament). "Japan maintains diplomatic relations with Nationalist China," he said shortly after his victory, "and trade with Communist China is on the basis of a separation of economics from politics," "This pragmatic division aims at increasing profitable trade with Red China while retaining American friendship...