Vice President Richard M. Nixon repudiated today support offered him in his presidential campaign by George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the “American Nazi Party.”
Herbert G. Klein, special assistant to the Vice President, said Mr. Nixon’s views on Nazism were in the same category as his reaction to Communism. Referring to Rockwell’s advocacy of the Nixon candidacy, Klein said that “all Americans should join in opposing any man who stirs up bias and hatred.” He recalled Mr. Nixon’s visit to the Warsaw Ghetto last year and said the Vice President was very moved by the experience.
In a public meeting here yesterday Rockwell asserted that his group would campaign for Nixon. He denounced the Federal Government as riddled with Jews and bracketed Jews and Communists.
For the first time since Rockwell began holding public rallies Sunday afternoons near the National Archives Building, police yesterday forebide him to use the loud-speakers which carried his voice to thousands of tourists strolling in the area.
Rockwell has announced that his organization will picket the Israel Embassy, the White House and the United Nations on June 11 to protest alleged Israeli “persecution” of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal. Rockwell also boasted yesterday that members of his “Storm Troops” included men on active duty with the United States Armed forces. He said a marine who had been arrested a week earlier was in yesterday’s demonstration and defied the authorities to do anything about it.
The Marine Corps has said that as Long as the “American Nazi Party” is not on the Attorney general’s subversive list, it cannot prevent members of the corps from affiliating with the party. The Department of Justice said last week it was reviewing the status of the Rockwell organization.
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