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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JULY 23, 1982
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before an obscure audience in which he warned of future problems over non
white immigration into Britain from the Commonwealth, a warning partly
confirmed by eruptions of racial disorders in Britain last summer. He was
summarily fired from the Tory "shadow cabinet.
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Yet, before that speech he
had passionately decried ill treatment of Mau Mau prisoners in Kenya.)
Few MP's in Parliament can match Enoch Powell's academic credentials.
Before the second world war he was a professor of Greek at Sydney University
in Australia, and has authored books on ancient Greek historians.
He
speaks French, German, Italian, Urdu and knows Sanskrit.
His current
literary effort is an historical reexamination of the New Testament which,
according to the TIMES profile, "will certainly light a fire under biblical
and theological scholarship."
A patriot� excellence, Mr. Powell has always been a staunch defender of
British royalty.
The TIMES article quotes part of a remarkable speech
which Powell gave on April 22, 1964 before the Royal Society of St. George.
He said at that time: "We on our day ought well to guard, as highly to
honour, the parent stem of England, and its royal talisman; for we know not
what branches yet that wonderful tree will have the power to put""forth.
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Quite prophetic, though I'm sure Mr. Powell didn't intend it that way.
Check Jeremiah 23:5 and 33:15 as well as Isaiah 11:1 about "a righteous
Branch" yet to stem from that "wonderful tree" as Mr. Powell calls it.
The TIMES writer, immediately after quoting from the 1964 speech, commented
very appropriately:
I
ask, simply, on his seventieth birthday, has there been any
Western politician since 1945, save Churchill and de Gaulle, who
would, or could, dare speak in tones of such grandeur, simplic
ity, and decency? We are all familiar with Tories who trumpet
Churchill, and Labour politicians who intone past injustice.
But, who has that capacity, whether you judge him right or wrong?
I
thought our readers might enjoy this insight into a rather remarkable
public figure, one who unfortunately was forced into political background
in 1968.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau