Several hundred persons heard George Lincoln Rockwell, fuehrer of the American Nazi Party, harangue against the Jews over a powerful loudspeaker at an outdoor rally Sunday in an area crowded with tourists. But most of the listeners, strolling to and from the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Museum, drifted away after listening briefly.
The reaction of the average by-passer to the open espousal of the Nazi cause was one of curiosity and surprise. A few indignant persons complained to police. Rockwell was flanked by his “storm-troopers” and protected by a large detachment of police, including armed forces military police, patrolmen, plainclothes, detectives, and mounted officers. His harangue lasted over two hours. It was preceded by the playing of the “Horst Wessel song, ” the Nazi storm-troop anthem.
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