“Brush-off” In Britain
It cannot always have been easy for the men at the top to ignore his threats, particularly when further down the scale other men have been stung to fury as the result of taking Carmichael at his own valuation. The Tennessee legislature, for instance, was sufficiently incensed to demand of the Federal Government that Carmichael be deported, although, as an American citizen he was safe from such action.
The British Government prudently gave him the same gadfly brush-off when he visited England in 1967. His blood-curdling was wholly predictable as was the demand from the angry Right that he should be prosecuted under the Race Relations Act which forbids any form of racialist incitement. But once again martyrdom was denied him. Instead, the Special Branch of Scotland Yard suggested quietly that Britain would prefer his space to his presence and he flew out to the more] congenial atmosphere of Prague.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 8
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