RACIAL INTOLERANCE
SIR,—In your surprisingly equivocal comment on the recent outbreak of racial intolerance you suggest that it has something to do with the failure of the Government to implement the proposals of the Wolfenden Report on prostitution. The enthusiasm of the Spectator for all aspects of the Wolfenden Report is admirable, but your notion that there is some connection between race riots and what the newspapers call vice is just philistine. Colour preju- dice is a neurotic passion caused mainly by feelings of sexual insecurity. It may feed on obscene fantasies about prostitution and ponces, but only a simpleton could believe that a few sensible Benthamite pro- posals for cleaning up the streets will effect a cure.— Yours faithfully,
ROLAND BROWN 4 Paper Buildings, Temple, EC4
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