Enoch on Ulster
Sir: The thoughts of Enoch Powell on Vietnam were 'too hard to resist and so I purchased The Spectator for the first time the week of February 10. I am, and will remain, staggered. The lucidity, clarity and sheer humanity (not to mention the prophecy) of his article, either mean that he has been a grossly misunderstood man on many other subjects, or that like Harold Hobson on Harold Pinter, everyone is entitled to be right, once, beyond the scope of argument. Sad it was, however, that Mr Powell had to share his bed with such a bore as Al Capp. May one point out that the Jane Fondas of this world are overjoyed that the killing is coming to a halt but rightly sceptical coming from a country that barely a hundred years ago broke countless treaties with the Red Indian — and that has been in the history books long enough to sink any bias — and there is incontrovertible evidence on film of the Chicago Convention to show that the thugs of Mayor Daley attacked, and in some cases injured for life, many innocent people including quite a few journalists, and that is in the printed record. As for the Kent State shootings, there is also a film made at the request of a father of one of the girls shot dead at the University that gives the lie absolute to Mr Capp's inverted patriotism. Lastly, like many another British citizen I am deeply puzzled by the Ulster morass. May such a new reader request that J. Enoch Powell be commissioned to put his thoughts on Ulster in your paper. Peter Porteous 17A Frognal, London NW3.
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