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the Nationalist Youth League in New York City. The plans of Rockwell and Hooker to establish a Nazi party on the American political scene failed to materialize, and Hooker returned to the business world and eventually took up residence in Italy. In early 1958, Rockwell, dressed in his Naval Commander's uniform, went to Newport News, Virginia, to the home of William Scott Stephenson, — the editor of a prosegregation magazine called "The Virginian. "' He applied for employment and presented samples of his writings and art work. Stephenson bought a number of caricatures, but when he learned of Rockwell's pro-Nazi leanings he severed relations. At this time, Rockwell reportedly _ did some free-lance propaganda writing for. the white supremacist group calling itself the National States Rights Party, but he was not employed full time because his monthly financial needs exceeded what this group could afford to pay. Rockwell states he was determined to set up a program which : was, in essence, Nazi, but, like some other neofascist groups, he at first tried to disguise it. Remembering that the ultimate smear of the Jews" was "you're a Nazi," he decided to be an “OPEN, ARROGANT, ALL-OUT NAZI, not a sneaky Nazi.. _with the swastika, storm-troops, and open declarations of... intentions to gas the Jew-traitors. . Through Stephenson, Rockwell met one Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr.,* a rabidly anti-Semitic multimillionaire from Baltimore, Maryland, who had been residing in Mainz, Germany. Arrowsmith's association with Stephenson had disintegrated, and he saw in Rockwell a welcome means -8- (AEG ORNS: Tr tey