'Get tough marchers'

CALLS for a strengthene police force and more : measures to deal with • violence, demonstrations and hooliganism' predictably studder Tory law-and-order de bate at their Blackpool conference yesterday.

"Terrifying'

to the debate Maudling referred the 'quite terrifying' increase in crime among young people.

Steps were being taken to save police manpower routine jobs and court administration would be speeded up by proposals now in hand.

On immigration he said: 'Certainly I do not consider we have any obligation to give admission to this country to aliens who are likely to pursue activities disruptive of our social order or our democratic institutions.' It was right to adhere to a traditionally liberal policy the admission of aliens, but liberalism was misguided if it led to policies that threatened its own continuance.

Mr Maudling used the phrase 'freedom and order', which he said was preferable to the phrase 'law and order'.

Under strong right-wing pressure Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home, announced measures to revoke some government sanctions on the racialist Rhodesian regime.

The surcharge on mail from Rhodesia was dropped by the British Post Office yesterday and the government will introduce legislation to make Rhodesian divorces valid in Britain.

Home added that the government will be approaching Rhodesian premier Ian Smith to find out whether a basis for real negotiations within present 'principles' could be found.

Earlier George Pole, chairman of the extreme rightwing Monday Club, had delegates baying when he stated that sanctions 'have forged a proud and spirited people into nation. In doing SO the Rhodesians have secured their identity.

Home told the conference:

"When I was last in Salisbury Mr Smith and I both thought that the right way to handle sanctions was at the end of successful negotiations and not before: that UDI would end, sanctions would be lifted and independence lawfully conceded.'