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Article: Enoch Powell, RIP.(UK member of Parliament)(Editorial)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 9, 1998
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ENOCH Powell was a member of the House of Commons for nearly 37 years, a Cabinet minister for 15 months, and prime minister never. Yet, in the history of twentieth-century British conservatism, he ranks with Winston Churchill as an orator and Margaret Thatcher as an ideological force.
There has been no other political figure remotely like him. He was a rigorous scholar -- professor of Greek at the age of 25 --relentlessly, even gleefully, following the logic of an argument to its often uncomfortable conclusion. He was a speaker whose every sentence emerged lucid, grammatically and syntactically correct, and yet powered by an almost mystical zeal. He could make an ...