A neo-Nazi newspaper here has attacked Austrian Chancellor Leopold Figl and Vienna Mayor Franz Jonas on the grounds that during their recent visits to the United States they had no contact with “Christian emigrants as opposed to those who went when Hitler came to power” and that they associated only with “Israelite emigres” in the U.S. The charges were made by Neue Front, organ of the neo-Nazi League of Independent Voters.
The Austrian People’s Party, the party of Chancellor Figl, warned the League that its “near neo-Nazi methods” are interfering with the campaign to gain restoration of full rights for former Nazi prisoners of war who have been repatriated.
The People’s Party magazine, “Austrian Monthly,” informed the neo-Nazi party that one of the reasons for the American High Commissioner’s rejection of a bill providing for the return of full rights to the former Nazi PW’s may have been fear of the League. The magazine agreed that it was wrong for the ex-Nazis to be deprived of their rights and liberties, but said that the methods used by the League to defend the ex-Nazis would serve only to “postpone the time when their complete liberty was achieved.”
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