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Daily quote by Edward Heath
I have told
Mr Powell
that I consider the speech he made in Birmingham yesterday to have been racialist in tone and liable to exacerbate racial tensions. This is unacceptable from one of the leaders of the Conservative Party
Statement (21 April 1968), as cited in
"Enoch Powell dismissed for 'racialist' speech"
,
The Guardian
(22 April 1968; April 2018 reprint)
Referring to Powell's
Rivers of Blood speech
.
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