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Evidence of prejudice is widespread; in a 1966 survey, a large majority said subsidized housing should be reserved for "our own people"-i.e., whites. "Britain is fish and chips," a woman in Birmingham explained, "not curry and rice." The Wolverhampton Bus Corporation until recently refused to allow Sikh bus conductors to wear their turbans while on duty; Moslem girls at some schools have been forbidden to wear their traditional shalwar (baggy trousers...
...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...
...from the time he first stood for election in 1950 he has never lost. His family life with his wife and their two teenage daughters is characterized by friends as "warm and close." They have a modest Regency-style house in London, as well as a house in Wolverhampton where they spend summers...
Speaking to constituents in his Midlands district of Wolverhampton, Powell last week charged that the sacrosanct Civil Service had "cruelly and persistently misled" the public as to the size of the immigrant problem. In a tactic reminiscent of the late Senator McCarthy, Powell said, "One begins to wonder if the Foreign Office is the only department of state into which enemies of this country have infiltrated...
...eccentricity and sense of fair play. The Sunday Observer, for example, has commented on "the fanaticism, the patience, the nationalism, the extremeness, the realism and the romanticism" that he exhibits by turns. Powell is a 56-year-old M.P. from a district in the sooty Midlands city of Wolverhampton, which he has represented since 1950; he is also a former professor of Greek at Australia's Sydney University, at age 27 was the author of four scholarly books, and speaks eleven languages with varying degrees of proficiency. Powell argues his case with a formidable intellect...