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...Black &White; Sir: Three of my most heartfelt cheers to Britain's Mr. Justice Salmon on his most eloquent speech before sentencing the nine "nigger-hunting" youths to four years each [TIME, Sept. 29]. Let's put some of our punks away for a long while, and make any possible future delinquent think half a dozen times of the benefits of a noncriminal life...
Though Britain refused to go along with Canada's demand for full convertibility of the pound, it did promise to wipe out restrictions on dollar-area newsprint, salmon, farm machinery. Canada in turn refused New Zealand's plea to cut down trade-inhibiting farm subsidies, but agreed to keep down tariff barriers against lamb and mutton, automobiles and aircraft. For the Commonwealth's smaller, less developed partners, Canada led a big power move to increase development aid, pour more money into the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Colombo Plan to speed progress in Asia and Africa...
Nine young men stood in the prisoner's dock in London's Old Bailey and stared up at Mr. Justice Cyril Salmon. Three weeks earlier, armed with iron bars and wooden table legs, crank handles and an air gun, they had piled into a battered car and gone "nigger hunting" in a wild three-hour safari across the Notting Hill district, home of thousands of West Indians. They were, said their lawyer, victims "of the society in which they live...
...Justice Salmon was unimpressed. Said he: "You are a minute and insignificant section of the population who have brought shame upon the district in which you live, and have filled the whole nation with horror, indignation and disgust. Everyone, irrespective of the color of their skins, is entitled to walk through our streets in peace with their heads erect, and free from fear. That is a right which these courts will always unfailingly uphold...
...Justice Salmon forthwith sentenced all nine youths to four years' imprisonment. Shocked at the severity of the sentence, relatives and friends in the courtroom gasped in dismay, burst into hysterical sobs outside. Two of the boys were so shaken they had to be helped down the 32 steps to their cells. But that night, all was quiet in Notting Hill...