NAZI PARTY MIGRANT

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29998, 6 December 1962, Page 14

NAZI PARTY MIGRANT

Investigations Reported

(N.Z.P.A. -Reuter— Copyright) MELBOURNE, Dec. 4.

Australian immigration officials are reported to be investigating whether it is still illegal to be a member of the Nazi Party in Australia after the action of a young English airman in Darwin who has ploclaimed himself a Nazi.

Immigration officials, quoted by the Melbourne morning newspaper "Sun

News-Pictorial" said the airman, aircraftman John Crouch, aged 23, could be departed from Australia if convicted of a serious crime. Any deporation action would depend on whether Crouch was a British subject or had become an Australian citizen. If he had sought and been granted registration as an Australian, he could not be deported, the newspaper said.

A Journalist attempted to interview Crouch today but Crouch would give only his rank, name and number. He refused to give his home town address in England, adding: "This has got nothing to do with my people.” Crouch, described by the “Sun News-Pictorial’’ as an English immigrant, is living in the guardhouse at the Darwin Royal Australian Air Force station—for protection at his own request.

He is a guard at the radar station at Lee point near Darwifi. Crouch asked in writing for permission to live in the guardhouse after publication in the Darwin newspaper “Northern Territory News” of a statement he had made that he wished to establish a local branch of the national socialist movement.

Crouch was quoted as saying that the National Socialist Movement was developing rapidly in Australia’s southern States. The R.A.A.F. has appointed an investigating officer.