Britain's Enoch Powell is a Cantabrigian classicist who can speak eleven languagesand enrage listeners in any of them. Winston Churchill once described him as "that young madman who has been telling me how many divisions I will need to recapture India."
Last week, after his latest speech in bluntest English, insistent Enoch, 64, sent gorges rising again. Speaking to a group of Young Conservatives, he let loose on his favorite topic: there are too many "coloreds" in Britain. This, he predicted, would produce "eventual conflict on a scale which cannot adequately be described by any lesser term than civil war." Warming...
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