A visiting Canadian who has been ordered deported from the United States for engaging in hate-fomenting activities during his stay here waived his right of appeal today and expressed regret for having joined George Lincoln Rockwell’s so-called American Nazi party.
John Pall, a native Hungarian who became a Canadian citizen active in neo-Nazi groups in Canada, was scheduled to leave today for Canada. Coming to the United States earlier this year, to paint and sell his paintings, he joined the Rockwell group and took part in all of its activities.
A deportation order was issued against him for failure to comply with requirements of non-immigrant status. A special inquiry officer of the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ruled that “to foment hatred against individuals, or against race and religion, cannot be regarded as conduct reasonably necessary to the pursuit of a visit or conduct reasonably allied therewith.”
Pall was given the right to appeal from the order but he decided today to waive his appeal right. He discharged Rockwell as his attorney and said in the Naturalization Service office that he was returning immediately to Canada. He made his statement about regretting affiliation with the Rockwell group at the same time.
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