OLYMPIC GAMES CAUSE OF BAD FEELING
STATEMENTS IN CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
(Received February 14, 7.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, February 13. * ’ Declaring that the Olympic winter sports, marked by wrangling over hockey, were a bad - advertisement for Canada, Mr' Thomas, Church', a, Toronto Conservative member, suggested in the House of Commons that, the time had come for tixe abandonment of the Olympic Games ' in favour of the Empire Games.' He alleged that remarks made by the president of the Canadian Hockey Association at the game? were fostering ill-will against Canada.' 1 The Prime’Minister thf president of the Hotkey Association was not a representative of the Canadian Government.^ *+■¥***' *• /*“ r \ J f 1 l f * T
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21708, 15 February 1936, Page 15
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