Powell bucks the 'system'
Sir: At the risk of being dubbed `Powellite' I cannot let Mr Abdul Hamid Ghazi's letter (31 January) go without comment.
In the first place the title he gives himself as 'Convenor, Pakistan People's Party (tc)' seems strangely out of tune with a desire for integration.
Secondly, it is precisely the fear that un- controlled immigration will lead to an under- mining of 'established norms, customs and constitution' which leads to much of the extreme reaction which has become focused in the person of Mr Powell.
This fear may be unfounded but I know of at least one immigrant who lived not far from Mr Ghazi, undermining at least one custom of this country by taking a second 'wife', allowed by his own religion, to the great distress of the girl's family.
G. W. Young The Vicarage, Tylers Green, High Wycombe, Bucks
Sir: When—when—are people going to realise that 'immigration' does not only refer to people from the Commonwealth?
This area is European-infested. We are likely to suffer more harm from these 'immigrants' (many communist) than from our own folk, whether white or coloured. Geographically 'of' Europe, we wish neither to be 'in' it, nor suffer persons 'in and of it to invade us. Persons who come here to work can send their entire wages home if they wish. Yet we natives cannot send to our needy relatives in Canada.
Edith 1. M. Farrer Santa Fay, 3 Merton Close, Lancing, Sussex
Sir: Your suggestion (24 January) that it could be argued that money spent assisting areas of high immigration density 'might better be spent on policies that would en- courage the dispersal of coloured immigrants outside the areas of concentration' may very well have the opposite effect to that which yod intend. Such a dispersion would merely transfer a few major problems in some of our larger cities into a multiplicity of minor problems in the towns, villages and hamlets of England. And would not dispersing immi- grants make them even more isolated and therefore more conspicuous, thus hampering the efforts towards the 'integration' so beloved by the highly paid functionaries of the booming race-relations industry?
R. G. W. Rickcord 26 Dickson Road, Lyneham, Wilts
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