On July 5, 2009, Colin Powell told CNN said that the policy was " correct for the time " but that " sixteen years have now gone by, and I think a lot has changed with respect to attitudes within our country, and therefore I think this is a policy and a law that should be reviewed.

Powell cut out and retained all his life an article from the New Statesman newspaper of 13 November 1943, in which the American Clare Boothe Luce said in a speech that Indian independence would mean that the " USA will really have won the greatest war in the world for democracy ".

Powell said that the unity of the realm had evolved over centuries and included the British Empire: " It was a unit because it had one Sovereign.

After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said " Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory ... he had no use for the Conservative loyalties and affections ; they interfered too much with the Whig's true vocation of detecting trends in events and riding them skilfully so as to preserve the privileges, property and interests of his class ".

The Daily Telegraph report of the speech said that " as Mr Powell sat down, he put his hand across his eyes.

" Powell also refused to launch a public inquiry, resisted calls to issue a warning against any left-over thalidomide pills that might remain in people's medicine cabinets ( as US President John F. Kennedy had done ), and said " I hope you're not going to sue the Government .... No one can sue the Government.

During the 1964 general election, Powell said in his election address, " it was essential, for the sake not only of our own people but of the immigrants themselves, to introduce control over the numbers allowed in.

In an interview for Today shortly after her departure from office in 1991, Margaret Thatcher said that Powell had " made a valid argument, if in sometimes regrettable terms.

At the press conference for its publication, Powell said if the government introduced a Bill to reform the Lords.

Later that day Powell said in a speech to the Primrose League:

Powell said the issue of British membership of the EEC was one where " if there be a conflict between the call of country and that of party, the call of country must come first ":

" Later in the speech Powell said, " I was born a Tory, am a Tory and shall die a Tory.

In 1987, Powell said there was no contradiction between urging people to vote Labour whilst proclaiming to be a Tory: " Many Labour members are quite good Tories ".

Powell, in an interview on 26 February, said he would be voting for Helene Middleweek, the Labour candidate, rather than the Conservative Nicholas Budgen.

Powell had a copy of a State Department Policy Statement from 15 August 1950, in which the American government said that the " agitation " caused by partition in Ireland " lessens the usefulness of Ireland in international organisations and complicates strategic planning for Europe ".

On 16 July, Powell gave a speech in the Commons in which he said the riots could not be understood unless one takes into consideration the fact that in some large cities between a quarter and a half of those under 25 were immigrant or descended from immigrants.

Powell disagreed with Scarman when he said that the black community was alienated because it was economically disadvantaged: the black community was alienated because it was alien.

Powell said that the government should be honest to the people by telling them in thirty years ' time, the black population of Lambeth would have doubled in size.

On 3 April, Powell said in the Commons that the time for inquests on the government's failure to protect the Falkland Islands would come later and that although it was right to put the issue before the United Nations, Britain should not wait upon that organisation to deliberate but use forceful action now.

The next day Powell, disagreed with the Labour Party leader Michael Foot's claim that the British government was acting under the authority of the United Nations: " The right of self-defence —- to repel aggression and to expel an invader from one's territory and one's people whom he has occupied and taken captive -— is, as the Government have said, an inherent right.

On 13 May Powell, said the task force was sent " to repossess the Falkland Islands, to restore British administration of the islands and to ensure that the decisive factor in the future of the islands should be the wishes of the inhabitants " but the Foreign Secretary ( Francis Pym ) desired an " interim agreement ": " So far as I understand that interim agreement, it is in breach, if not in contradiction, of each of the three objects with which the task force was dispatched to the South Atlantic.

Powell wrote an article for The Times on 29 June, in which he said: " The Falklands have brought to he surface of the British mind our latent perception of ourselves as a sea animal .... No assault on a landward possession would have evoked the same automatic defiance, tinged with a touch of that self sufficiency which belongs to all nations ".

Powell then said there was " the Hispanic factor ": " If we could gather together all the anxieties for the future which in Britain cluster around race relations ... and then attribute them, translated into Hispanic terms, to the Americans, we would have something of the phobias which haunt the United States and addressed itself to the aftermath of the Falklands campaign ".

Powell said that " it would be difficult to imagine a more cynically wicked or criminally absurd or insultingly provocative action ".

Powell said he supposed this to mean " that the Soviet Union, which seems always to be assumed to be the enemy in question, proved so victorious in a war of aggression in Europe as to stand upon the verge of invading these islands ....

U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell launched the talks on April 3, 2001, and the negotiations continued with mediation by the U. S., Russia, and France until April 6, 2001.

In a busy summer, Powell brought in 19 new players and after a successful season, on 14 April 2012, Charlton Athletic won promotion back to the Championship with a 1 – 0 away win at Carlisle United.

In 1936 Greenberg re-broke his wrist in a collision with Jake Powell of the Washington Senators in April of that year.

* April 17 – Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon are found guilty in the second Rodney King trial.

* April 14 – Alfred Hoare Powell, English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery ( d. 1960 )

* April 5 – Cozy Powell, English rock drummer ( b. 1947 )

* April 1 – Jane Powell, American actress

* April 5 – Colin Powell, U. S. Secretary of State

Powell received almost 120, 000 ( predominantly positive ) letters and a Gallup poll at the end of April showed that 74 per cent of those asked agreed with his speech and only 15 per cent disagreed, 11 per cent unsure.

Three days after the speech, on 23 April, as the Race Relations Bill was being debated in the House of Commons, 1, 000 dockers marched on Westminster protesting against Powell's " victimisation ", and the next day 400 meat porters from Smithfield market handed in a 92-page petition in support of Powell, amidst other mass demonstrations of working class support, much of it from trade unionists, in London and Wolverhampton.

When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982, Powell was given secret briefings on Privy Councillor terms on behalf of his party.

On 14 April, in the Commons, Powell claimed " it is difficult to fault the military and especially the naval measures which the Government have taken ".

On 28 April, Powell spoke in the Commons against the Northern Ireland Secretary's ( Jim Prior ) plans for devolution to a power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland: " We assured the people of the Falkland Islands that there should be no change in their status without their agreement.

After British forces successfully recaptured the Falklands, Powell asked Thatcher in the Commons on 17 June, recalling his statement to her of 3 April: " Is the right hon.

In an article for the Sunday Telegraph on 3 April Powell expressed his opposition to the Labour Party's manifesto pledge to outlaw fox hunting.

In a speech in the Commons on 7 April, Powell claimed the nuclear hypothesis had been shaken by two events.

In The Trial of Enoch Powell, a Channel 4 television broadcast in April 1998, on the thirtieth anniversary of his Birmingham speech ( and two months after his death ), 64 % of the studio audience voted that Powell was not a racist.

Heath sacked Enoch Powell from the Shadow Cabinet in April 1968, shortly after Powell made his inflammatory " Rivers of Blood " speech which criticised Commonwealth immigration to the United Kingdom.

" and Bud Powell for " I'll Remember April ").

On the night of April 14, 1865, Lewis Powell, an associate and co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, attempted to assassinate Seward at his Washington D. C. home.