The possibility arose today that there may be a court test of a ruling requiring the New York City Board of Education to allow the tiny neo-Nazi National Renaissance Party to hold meetings in public schools after school hours.
Some members of the Board expressed deep concern over the ruling by New York City Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, indicating they feared the possibility of violence developing at such meetings. Mr. Rankin ruled that the group had a legal right to meet in schools. The ruling stemmed from an original decision of the Board rejecting a request from the neo-Nazis to meet in a New York school building.
The Joint New York-New Jersey Action Committee of the Jewish War Veterans sent a letter to Lloyd K. Garrison, president of the Board of Education, asking that the neo-Nazis be denied use of public school facilities for meetings. The JWV said that previous meetings of the neo-Nazis led to clashes, injuries and arrests.
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