There is so much that is contradictory about Powell. Since his death, he has widely been reported as homosexual, but there seems no firm evidence of a physical same-sex relationship. In spite of a conservative background, his logical mind led him to reject both religion and capital punishment. He encouraged and benefited from a racist political campaign, yet was not himself a racist, as his respect for the culture of India (the result of a war-time army posting) and his protest at the Hola massacre showed.
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