Louis Weichardt, leader of the South African Gentile National-Socialist Movement–a group whose policy is based on anti-Semitism–last night announced that he has decided to join the Nationalist Party of South Africa, and called on the members of his organization to follow his lead, Reuters reported here.
The Reuters dispatch also quoted unofficial Nationalist sources in Capetown as stating that the party had accepted Weichardt as a member, He founded his anti-Semitic organization after Hitler came to power in Germany, He spent 15 months of the war period in an internment camp.
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