Federal and local law enforcement officers here have been ordered to arrest any member of the American Nazi Party who attempts to disturb marchers in the civil rights march “for jobs and freedom” scheduled to be held August 28. Photographs of known Nazi activists were shown the officers to alert them against known followers of American “fuehrer” George Lincoln Rockwell, whose headquarters are across the Potomoc River in Arlington, Va.
Meanwhile, Rockwell predicted that 10, 000 of his sympathizers would be with him on the grounds of the Washington Monument here to protest the march. He said he expects to be arrested that day since he has been denied a parade permit by the National Park Service, which has charge of the grounds. He said the arrest would occur “when I’m told to move along and I refuse to budge.” Washington’s chief of police, Robert V. Murray, said his men “will be able to handle” Rockwell.
Rockwell also reported that he had distributed 100, 000 copies of an anti-Negro pamphlet among white people, mainly in Southern cities. In it he warns that on August 28 the Negro “revolutionists will openly threaten to plunge their final dagger into the beating heart of our republic.”
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