Mr Powell no racist
Sir: Conor Cruise O'Brien writes of Enoch Powell: (Books, 16 December)
I take him to be a racist in the . . . sense of a person who does not like to have to associ- ate, on a footing of equality, with persons belonging to a race different from his own.
Mr O'Brien presents no evidence for this and I know of none. Mr Powell is thought to be a racist because of his belief that this country would be a better place if fewer members of the 'ethnic minorities' had been permitted to settle here. 'It is a question of numbers', as he has repeatedly said.
Public life is dominated by those who encouraged immigration and they like to regard all who have opposed it as being `racist'. Some are, of course. I believe Mr Powell is not.
Jonathan Guinness
Osbaston Hall, Osbaston, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
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