Rockwell Says He Could Return

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29898, 11 August 1962, Page 11

Rockwell Says He Could Return

(N 2 P.A.-Reutcr— Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Tlie American Nazi Party leader, George Lincoln Rockwell disclosed in Washington last night that he smuggled himself into Britain from Ireland “and 1 could do it again any time 1 want to.” Rockwell, who was deported from Britain yesterday, was greeted at Washington airport with Hitler salutes and "Sieg heil” by a dozen of hii henchmen wearing Nazi brown-shirt uniforms, complete with swastikas He Invited two British reporters to his “headquarters

barracks.’’ a wooden house in nearby Arlington, Virginia

In his “fuehrer” office Rockwell spoke to the reporters He sat at a mahogany desk under two spotlights. Behind him was a Nazi flag between pictures of George Washington and Hitler A bronze replica of Hitler and othei Nazi mementos were around the room

Rockwell praised Scotland Yard, whose detectives arrested him while he visited a London newspaper office on Wednesday night "At the police station it was almost embarrassing They treated me with such courtesy.” he said. "They read me the deportation order as though it was a citation for a medal for heroism” Apart from disclosing that he had entered Britain from Ireland, Rockwell refused to

give any details of his secret activities in Britain. He said he had sold the story to a London newspaper, the “People.” for £5OO “I learned that papers in England pay fantastic amounts for scoops.” he said "I don't see why we should not cash in on this and make some money for our movement”

Rockwell claimed that he and Colin Jordan, the head of the British National Socialist Party, had made "certain arrangements” which would “shock the world within six months ’’ Asked if he had seen Sir Oswald Mosley, the pre-war leader of the British Fascist Party Rockwell said: “Nowhy should I?" He said Mosley now was not extreme enough for him He said Mosley had been everything but a Communist.

and at one point described him as a “Jew-lover" Rockwell denied statements that members of the staff of the newspaper he visited on Wednesday night, the “Daily Mirror.” had turned him in to the British police He said he had gone to the newspaper to supply an exclusive interview, “after which I was on my way to Scotland Yard to surrender" .

Rockwell's beadquarters appeared to the reporters to be well stocked with small arms as well as Nazi symbols One of the reporters, who was smoking a cigarette and looking for an ash tray in which to put it out. was approached by a “storm trooper” wearing a revolver on his hip and told: “You are not allowed to smoke here." The cigarette was taken and thrown into the street.