Im migration
Sir: In a recent letter to the Daily Telegraph, Mr Patrick Wall, MP, seemed to applaud Mr Enoch Powell's infamous speech as a clarion call to Britons who have a pride in their country.
Within the last few days an Indian student at Highbury has been set upon, kicked and slashed, by four sixteen year olds chanting `blackman, blackman, Enoch, Enoch.' A respec- table, West Indian citizen at Wolverhampton celebrating a family christening has been attacked without provocation and injured by people also invoking the name of Enoch, the
prophet. 'Enoch dockers' at Westminstez have been putting their boots into students on the - ground.
Are we to explain this sort of behaviour as some sort of twisted expression of national pride?
Many will echo Mr Wall's cry for leadership of a kind that will kindle `those principles that made us great,' but what has this aspiration to do with a bloodthirsty, hateful speech, lacking a single compassionate phrase towards fellow- members of our Commonwealth, which has so fanned the flames of ignorance and prejudice as to bring about such episodes as these?
If 'Enoch' knew what passions he was about to unleash, he was guilty of an act that was the ' complete negation of patriotism. It is possibly more charitable to suppose that his frothy speech was a bid for future political power which, pray God, he may never achieve.
If 'Enochism' were ever to win through there would surely be a migration from this once- great land of white as well as black.
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