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...Halifax; Postmaster-General Reginald Bevins was beaten in Liverpool; Health Minister Anthony Barber fell at Doncaster; and Geoffrey Rippon, Minister of Works, was defeated at Norwich. But Labor had a bad local setback too. Patrick Gordon Walker, slated to be Foreign Secretary, was beaten in his constituency of Smethwick, a part of Birmingham where the race issue is raging because of heavy immigration by West Indians, Pakistanis and Sikhs from India, turning whole neighborhoods into slums. Because the Laborites originally opposed Tory-sponsored curbs on Commonwealth immigration (actually, they have since changed their stand), and because the party platform blames...
Inequitably Correct. Since the 1958 race riots in Notting Hill and later in the port city of Middlesbrough, violence has grown rare, but it has been replaced by a more finicky discrimination. In Smethwick tenants in a housing project staged a rent strike when a Pakistani family was given an apartment; workers in an Oxfordshire factory voted 591-205 against the management's proposal to fill vacant jobs with colored immigrants. British unions are on record as opposing any color bar, but when job shortages occur, the unwritten union rule is "blacks out first." British social workers argue that...
Homely Smells. Friendliness was far from the minds of the residents of a spanking new civic housing development on Price Street in Smethwick (pop. 68,000), when they learned that prospective neighbors were no natives of the black industrial Midlands, but proper natives-from Pakistan, of all places. The father, 28-year-old Sardar Mohammed, is a hardworking factory hand, the mother shy and house proud, the two children positively sparkling...
...intolerance got reinforcements too. When a former Congregational chapel on Smethwick's main street was converted into a temple to serve the Indian Sikhs who have recently settled in the town, there were fresh mutterings of alien influences. The Anglican vicar of St. Michael's and All Angels Church lamented in his parish magazine that a building which had long been used for Christian worship was now "being renovated, decorated and adapted as a temple for black people to preach what we have always spoken of as heathen rites...
...conventional rounds, London, Stratford, Winchester, Bath, Windsor, walking on a carpet of your own dollars. Today, when every cent must pay its way, new glories await you." In inexpensive Staffordshire, visit "Walsall, one of the few guidebook towns with absolutely nothing under 'Features of Interest'" or "nearby Smethwick, with its locally popular Victoria Public Park (no charge...