It appears that Enoch Powell first uttered his Vergilian "rivers of blood"
quotation in its original Latin during a speech at Walsall a few weeks
before he notoriously repeated it in English at Birmingham.
Journalist Chris Moncrieff is quoted as re****ting Powell having said that
his "biggest mistake" had been to translate the passage into English.
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