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Inevitably, Op-Ed's quest for originality sometimes falls flat. Getting Britain's Racist M.P. Enoch Powell, whose political knowledge of Viet Nam is at best limited, to write about U.S. foreign policy did not make much sense journalistically. On other occasions, the Times seems to encourage those who disagree with its editorial policy to put their worst foot forward. Superhawks propounding a pro-military Viet Nam policy on the page, for instance, tend either to be poor writers or to propose badly organized arguments...
Opponents range from right-wing Tories and M.P.s with farming and fishing constituencies to left-wingers who see the Market as just that-a soulless bazaar dedicated only to profits and consumption. The most vocal opponent of all is Enoch Powell, the leading Tory right-winger, who has been traveling throughout the Six to explain why a majority of Britons feel "a repugnance" toward joining the EEC. Says Powell: "The principal events which have placed their stamp upon our consciousness of who we are were the very ones in which we have been alone, confronting a Europe that was lost...
Signs of Apartheid. The working class has been uneasiest of all, and since 1965 it has responded with rising passion to Tory M.P. Enoch Powell's vision of rivers "foaming with much blood" and of an England transformed by hordes of "grinning pickaninnies" into a vast Asian or African bazaar. "The explosion which will blow us asunder is there," cried Powell, "and the fuse is burning...
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson is one of these. Prominent British Conservative Enoch Powell is another. French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann is still another...
...election of Enoch Powell, British George Wallace extraordinaire, the English had better stop the snotty comments about our race problems...