Justice Vincent Lupiano will hear argument tomorrow morning in New York County Supreme Court on two motions for an injunction restraining Newbold Morris, New York City Commissioner of Parks, from granting a permit to the “American Nazi Party” for a rally in Union Square on July 4.
One action was brought by State Senator Frank J. Pino and Assemblyman Irvin Brownstein who obtained a temporary injunction from Justice Louis L. Friedman in Brooklyn yesterday. The second action was initiated by the Public Awareness Committee.
In granting a temporary injunction pending the hearing by Justice Lupiano, Justice Friedman warned in a four-page decision that there would be “bloodshed, violence and riot under our very eyes” if the Nazi meeting were to be held. He said the police would be powerless to halt the violence.
Civic and Jewish organizations continued today to transmit protests to City Hall against Mr. Morris’ reported intention to grant the permit. The Auschwitz-Buna Memorial Scholarship Fund, an organization of survivors of the dread Auschwitz camp, telegraphed a warning to Mayor Wagner and Commissioner Morris against permitting the Nazi meeting.
“Speaking for the pitiful number of those who escaped the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz,” the message said, “we warn America that your permitting the American Nazi Party rally could lead to the defeat of America by its own Constitution.” Protests also came from the Transport Workers Union and the Fourteenth Street Association.
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