Sixteen Intellectuals Say: "the Turning Point Has Come"

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For the first time, racism is to be written into British law. British citizens are to be excluded because their skins are dark, or their grandfathers foreign. But for our specific promise of British citizenship, many more Kenyan Asians would have become Kenyan citizens. A fraudulent insurance company can treat a claim, when it is presented, as 'a scrap of paper'; can the British Government? The reasons for this proposal are obscure, A settlement grant of £500 per immigrmt family could have been made instead on the condition that the immigrants avoided a handful of named racial trouble spots. But appeasement of racists apparently means more than the honour of the British Government or the rights of British citizens. In the past we have voted and worked for the Labour Party. This is the turning point. We cannot see ourselves voting for a party that goes through with thi policy, Peter Calvecoressi; PatrickCorbett; David Daiches; Len Joy; Andrzej Krassowski; Brian Lapping; Colin Leys; Michael Lipton: Anthony Low; Bernard Schaffer; Dudley Seers; Martin Staniland; Barry Sunple: Richard M, Titmuss; Peter Townsend; John White.