OLYMPIC GAMES ORGANISING

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27675, 3 June 1955, Page 10

OLYMPIC GAMES ORGANISING

Committee “Certain” Of Success (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) * SYDNEY, June 1. The organising of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games had now reached the stage where Australia could “look the world straight in the eye,” Lieutenant-General Bridgeford said in Sydney today. General Bridgeford, chief executive officer of the Olympic Organising Committee, said it was certain now that the Games would be “nothing but a great and glorious success, which will bring honour to Australia.” General Bridgeford, who was addressing the Institute of Public Relations, said that the trouble with Australia was that there were “too many croakers who have no confidence in their own country.” He appealed for ’help to stifle adverse criticisms of the 1956 Games organisation. He* also appealed to the public not to show any discrimination of feeling against certain foreign nations in Australia for the Games. “Any show of hostility would do irreparable harm,” he said. One amazing aspect of the Games organisation was the large number of citizens who had already offered home accommodation for Asiatic visitors to the Games, he said.