NOTTING HILL LEAFLET
Alleged Reason For Murder
LONDON, June 12.
The “Daily Herald,” today reported that the White Defence League was distributing a new and violent anti-racial leaflet in the Notting Hill district of London. The leaflet, the “Daily Herald” said, suggested that Kelso Cochrane, the West Indian carpenter recently murdered in the street, might have been killed “to smear the white folk of Notting Hill.” The leaflet was said to be headed “Who Killed Kelso Cochrane?’ It was quoted as saying: “The people behind the coloured invasion are getting desperate because of growing white resistance in Notting Hill. “Now they are using the killing of a coloured man to smear the white folk of Notting Hill,” said the leaflet.
The “Daily Herald” quoted a Labour member of Parliament, Mr Charles Royle, as commenting: “This reaches a new low in viciousness. ... I am sending a copy to the Home Secretary.” A Conservative member, Mr Nigel Fisher, was reported as describing the leaflet as “deliberately aimed at causing trouble.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 13
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