Urbana police canceled yesterday a scheduled speech by American Nazi George Rockwell which was to have taken place tonight at the Channing Murray Forum here. The reason given was fear of violence.
Rockwell’s topic was to have been “The Need for Nazism in American Politics.” The sponsoring group was the Urbana Forum for Dissent Committee.
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