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...Hooton recently defended himself against the charge of being a Nazi by saying that for years he had opposed the new German doctrine of the supremacy of Nordic peoples. He is an advocate of racial improvement by biological means...
Walt Disney was in Boston early this morning, planning to confer with Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, this afternoon and tomorrow to gather material for a new movie which will debunk Nazi race ideology...
Disney, who will be accompanied by his wife and two script writers, has termed his visit a 'fishing expedition" only, to see what ideas and material Hooton can give him. He is not sure what application anthropological theory will have to his movie, other than supplying a scientific background for his argument against the superiority of the Nordic strain...
...Disney-Hooton conference signifies that "they're working out plans for a picture debunking Hitler's theories on what makes a perfect Nordic state," said a Hollywood columnist recently...
Despite this Hooton was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer and corrupter of American youth by Representative Edmond J. Donlan. Hooton, in his own defense, claimed "I am not a fascist. For many years I have written and spoken against the Nazi theory of Nordic race purity and supremacy. . . . I am a democrat...