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criminal proceedings against Acci. No.. noon rowen ror mcrement to racial hatred, or at least to give them his 'GO! consent to take legal action themselves. ord way, ..1068 He won't do it. The 1965 Race Relations Act lays down. among other thines. crimina Rega. for it espi? penalties for uttering, publishing or astribute in Dublic words or an written matter which is ' threatening abusive or insulting and waich Is * likely to stir up hatred against any secuion or ine pubic aisunguisnea by race, colour, etc.
The proviso in section 6 of the Act which requires the Attorney-General's consent to be sought before proceedings can be commenced. was designca to prevent frivolous actions like one brought last year by a Dr. Carl Theo Thorne who wanted the Court to grant an injunction against the BBC to restrain it from televising the Rat ratrol series because ne tougnt lu was derisive and abusive of Germany and people of German origin! In present circumstances the proviso is, to say the least, anomalous. Had the Conservatives been in power with the usual Party man appointed as Attorney-General, it would be sible to conceive him allowing criminal proceedings to be taken against a jut secrdury member of the Cabinet! And if Sir Elwyn Jones had given his consent, the racists and the Monday Club mob would have alleged that his action was party-political. Som feel that it would have done harm than good if Sir given the go-ahead, but it would have gymnastics Powell of all charges even after Ter Heath had dubbed the Wolverhamp tion speech as "racialist' Powell, the man called a racist monster' by those who were waiting for him in Canada, may been articulating (or exploiting) the words and feelings of others, like Sir Oswald Mosley. But then it has never been a defence to a criminal charge to plead that there are other, un traced potential criminals The proviso in the 1965 Act ought to be scrapped, or the power to institute proceedings should be let u the hands of an impartial body. Ef Tecuvely. une overnment may Dear in mind the words of a former Labour Lora Chancellor. Lord owill. who said in 1955 that 'it would be undesirable ir it became a pracuice to pas a law in wide terms: and rely on the Attorney-General to enforce that law 15s only in what he thought were appro£3 priate circumstances'| (Lords. 192, col. 525, April, 1955.) It Powell or any of his flock should make a similar speech in the future we may have to revert to of the Public Order Act 1936 whid penalises the making of speeches which are likely to cause a breach of the peace, irrespective of the speakers intentions
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