The U.S., even while trying to get its hands on Prize Spy Robert Soblen. last week got a booby prize. Hustled out of Great Britain was George Lincoln Rockwell, self-styled Führer of the Nazi Party in the U.S. Rockwell, 44, leads a band of a few hundred American Nazis, agitates for deporting all Negroes to Africa, liquidating the Jews, and hanging all “traitors,” e.g., Eisenhower, Truman, Chief Justice Warren. He had gone to Britain to be guest star at a convention of British Nazis. But when his presence was discovered, Scotland Yard picked him up and, with very little time wasted on legal argument, put him on a U.S.-bound plane. As he boarded his jet, Rockwell turned, made a Heil Hitler salute and shouted, “I’ll be seeing you!”
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