The authors of a column widely syndicated in the Canadian press have taken issue with the Toronto police for protecting a local Nazi agitator in a public park here. The columnists, Douglas Fisher and Harry Crowe, observed that the protection given the Nazi, John Beattie, by some 200 Toronto police officers, was tantamount to a “subsidy” for Nazism.
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