70 Year Magazine Archive

On the Right

by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.

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New York, July 26—At a recent panel discussion on the Nazi rally in Chicago, several points of interest emerged:

Now this is in sharp contrast with the exposure given a dozen years ago by Playboy magazine to the original American Nazi, George Lincoln Rockwell. Over a stretch of ten thousand words (parenthetically, the interviewer was Alex Haley, subsequently the author of Roots), Rockwell spun out his half-truths in monstrously plausible form. There were those (myself among them) who protested that kind of exposure given to the Nazi message. But a demonstration featuring merely the head of the boil isn’t an effective instrument of proselytization: suggesting,

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