Many Britons have long clucked over the U.S. troubles with segregation. The British, they rather suggest, are above all that. But with rising colored immigration from far-off places, more and more Englishmen find themselves living alongside new neighbors who look frightfully alien. In the first five months of this year, 38,700 immigrants came from the West Indies. India and Pakistan—84% more than the same period last year. There is no legal barrier to immigration from Commonwealth countries. The government, worried by the increase, officially talks of finding a solution "as friendly to these people as we can and not based on...
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