Stanley Lowell, chairman of the city’s Commission on Intergroup Relations, said yesterday that he personally favored giving American Nazi party leader George Rockwell a permit to speak in New York City. Rockwell was refused a permit to speak in Union Square last July 4, but the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court recently ruled that such a permit should be granted. The city is taking the case to the State Court of Appeals.
Mr. Lowell, who is also a national vice-president of the American Jewish Congress, suggested that Jewish policemen be assigned to protect Rockwell if the permit were granted.
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