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The colonial populations are resented in
Liverpool, Paddington and other areas by those
who come into contact with them. But those who
don't are apt to take a more liberal
view.
 Monday, August 6, 2007
Churchill
called for quotas on influx of 'coloured
people' By JAMES SLACK Photo:
Churchill with Londoners in June 1943. All
White.
From David Irving, "Churchill's War", vol. ii:
"Triumph in Adversity". WINSTON Churchill expressed
alarm about an influx of 'coloured people' in 1950s
Britain and considered imposing a quota on numbers,
secret Cabinet papers revealed yesterday.
 The
Prime Minister feared a public backlash if too many
migrants were allowed to settle, and believed the
country was storing up problems for the future.
Churchill's Home Secretary, David
Maxwell-Fyfe, even
said there was a case for excluding 'riffraff'
migrants from the country. But his Government,
worried about upsetting the 'liberal' vote, backed
away from taking such controversial action.
The papers, released yesterday by the National
Archives in Kew, west London, show that the debate
over what has become one of the nation's hottest
political issues actually began half a century ago.
At the time, large numbers of immigrants from
Commonwealth countries such as the West Indies,
India and Pakistan were heading to Britain to find
work as the country struggled with the the post-war
labour shortage.  David
Irving comments: WE have to ask who were the traitors
who allowed this to happen to Britain. In
1962 finally an act was passed restricting
coloured immigration into England -- too
late, and not strict enough even then.
Lord Hailsham was one such traitor, as I
reported on Day
15 in the Lipstadt Trial, cross
examined about a
speech I made in 1990 to my Clarendon
Club.
 In
1954 Lord Hailsham (right) said
that only 100,000 immigrants had so far
arrived and he did not expect many more.
Rather like Tony Blair last year with the
influx from East Europe, only far more
deadly. I am glad to say that The
Times reported my swipe at Hailsham
the next day.
The cowardly newspapers
always allow others to take the heat --
they are too frightened to say these
patriotic things themselves -- and if
others say them, the newspapers call them
"racist." Nobody has dared pin that label
in Churchill, yet.  Day
15 of the Lipstadt trial, 2000: MR RAMPTON: Could
you turn to -- this is the
Clarendon
Club in
1990?
Can you turn to page 9 of 12, please? I am
going to read the whole of
this. You say: "Thus, we
follow this tangled thread. At the end of
the war in 1945, the British Empire was at
its greatest ever extent in history. Our
armies straddled the globe. We were
beginning to get back the territories that
we had lost in the Far East through
Churchill's foolish military and naval
strategy. And suddenly the Empire
went. Groping around in
the darkness, we look for", capital G,
"Guilty", capital M, "Men. Partly I think
that we must blame sins of omission. If we
look back from where Britain is now, with
just a handful of people of true English,
Irish, Scots and Welsh stock -
apprehensive, furtively meeting in dinners
like this, exchanging our own shared
sensations and sorrows - then we can see
where some of the worst errors have been
made. "In 1958, for
example, we find Lord Hailsham saying at a
Cabinet meeting, 'I do not think this
Coloured Immigration is going to be much
of a problem in Britain. We only have
100,000 of these immigrants so far, and I
do not think the numbers are likely to
grow much beyond that! So on balance I am
against having any restrictions imposed".
. . Then you close the
quote from Lord Hailsham and you say:
"Traitor No. 1 to the British cause". What
do you mean by that? IRVING. Lord
Hailsham, these were records that were in
1988 just released from the Public Record
Office, Cabinet records, and they reveal
Lord Hailsham, who later became a Lord
Chancellor, I believe, having said at a
Cabinet meeting in 1958 in a totally
negligent manner that he did not think
that immigration into Britain was going to
be a problem and that so far only 100,000
had arrived, and he thought it would not
go to more than that.  |
Churchill's Cabinet papers gave a figure of 40,000
immigrants living in Britain in 1954, compared with
7,000 before the Second World War. Today, around
6million people living in Britain were born
overseas, or one in ten. They include more than
600,000 migrants from Eastern Europe alone. The
handwritten notes were kept by Cabinet Secretary
Sir Norman Brook as a record of Cabinet
meetings separate from the official minutes.They were in an abbreviated form for ease of
note-taking. On February 3, 1954, under the Cabinet
agenda item 'Coloured Workers', Churchill is quoted
as saying: "Problems will arise if many coloured
people settle here. "Are we to saddle ourselves
with colour problems in UK? Attracted by Welfare
State. Public opinion in UK won't tolerate it once
it gets beyond certain limits.' Mr Maxwell-Fyfe raised the possibility of
immigration control. He said: "There is a case on
merits for excluding riff- raff. But politically it
would be represented and discussed on basis of
colour limitation." He added: "The colonial
populations are resented in Liverpool, Paddington
and other areas by those who come into contact with
them. But those who don't are apt to take a more
liberal view." Other papers released yesterday show Churchill's
interest in restoring corporal punishment, which
had been abolished by the Attlee government after
the Second World War, for crimes of cruelty and
violence. He is quoted as saying: "What of
re-introducing it for three or five years, to see
if it does reduce crime?" On July 10, 1952, the
Cabinet turned its attention to "Sugar: for Jam
Making". Churchill agreed to extra sugar being
issued to farmers so that a bumper crop of plums
could be preserved, declaring: "Plums shall not
rot." -
 
Four
thousand a week flee UK because of
immigration
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