Word: waiden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ministers from the West Indies and Africa flew hastily into London to express "grave concern" over the continuing riots, the British government seemed to be more than ever at a loss just what to do about it. Home Secretary R. A. Butler, speaking to a Conservative rally at Saffron Waiden, carefully avoided committing himself to anything. "It has always been the right of British citizenship to come in and out of the mother country at will, and it will need considerable force of argument to alter this policy," he said. On the other hand, Butler noted that even "before these...