A rally of the National Socialist White Peoples Party, formerly known as the American Nazi Party, on the Washington mall yesterday drew an audience of about 250 which appeared to consist largely of hecklers. Police kept them apart from two dozen khaki-shirted party members sporting swastika arm bands who surrounded the speakers platform. The speakers, greeted with jeers and obscenities, ranted against Negroes and Jews. Dr. William Pierce, the party’s information officer, called President Nixon a traitor because he allegedly tolerated “Communist demonstrations” against the Vietnam war. Another party leader, Robert A. Lloyd III, claimed that America’s racial crisis was “caused by the presence of two alien races, blacks and Jews” and urged “drastic social surgery.” Dr. Pierce was identified in the Senate last week as the voice on a party-sponsored telephone message urging “a bullet between the eyes” for three well known Liberal senators opposed to the Vietnam war.
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