Protesters put Nazis to flight

Press, 21 October 1980, Page 8

Protesters put Nazis to flight

NZPA Evanston, . Illinois About 2000 people, most of them Jewish, at the weekend marched on a planned American Nazi Party rally in Evanston, a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago, and put 11 party members to flight.

One police officer was slightly injured and 10 demonstrators arrested for allegedly having forced their way through a police cordon which had been set up to keep the Nazi Party members and counter-demonstra-tors separated.

> The counter-demonstrators marched several kilometres to the rally in Evanston, from an election meeting given by Independent presidential candidate, John Anderson, who

had condemned the bombing of, a Paris synagogue two weeks ago.

They carried yellow Stars of David and United States and Israeli flags and chanted, “never, never, again.”

After tlie counter-demon-strators arrived at Lovelace Park, where the podium for the Nazi Party had been set up, the 11 party members, dressed in brown shirts and protected by ' nearly .; 200 police officers and their own swastika-bedecked shields, soon fled under a hail of stones, eggs, and tomatoes. The Nazi Party meeting earlier had been denounced as “part of a worldwide resurgence of anti-Semitic activity” by the Committee on Individual Liberty and Jewish Security..