GUARD ON HOUSE
Gordon Walker Threatened
(N.Z. P. A.-Reuter—Copyright > LONDON, June 20.
A police guard was put on the home of Mr Patrick Gordon Walker in London tonight 9t the former British Foreign Secretary’s request. He was said to have received an anonymous threatening telephone call from a member of a racialist movement, saying that a Ku Klux Klan-style fiery cross would be nailed to his front door. After losing his Parliamentary seat in the raeially-con-scious Midlands industrial town of Smethwick last year, Mr Gordon Walker again hit world headlines by failing by a slim margin to hold what was considered to be a “safe” labour seat at Leyton (East London) in a by-election. Both the Leyton by-election and the Smethwick campaign were marked by incidents over racial issues and the influx to Britain of coloured immigrants.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30783, 22 June 1965, Page 9
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