U.S. Urged To Reject 1960 Winter Games

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28922, 16 June 1959, Page 15

U.S. Urged To Reject 1960 Winter Games

(Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 14. A Pennsylvania senator said today that the United States should consider abandoning next year’s Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, California, unless Nationalist China is allowed to participate.

Senator Hugh Scott (Republican) described the International Olympic Committee's expulsion of Nationalist China as regrettable. Senator Scott, Interviewed on a programme prepared in Washington for use in New York television stations, said Russia had been overwhelmingly defeated In every previous attempt to substitute Communist China for Nationalist China on international committees. , Now, he said. “They suddenly sneak in by the back door, in a committee on athletics.” Brundage Criticised The American Legion proposed today that Mr Avery Brundage, the American representative and chairman of the 1.0. C. when it expelled the Nationalists recently, be dismissed unless the decision was reversed. The legion's commander (Mr Preston Moore) accused Mr Brundage and the 1.0. C. of “cowardly surrender to the Red blackmailers" and predicted that South Korea and West Germany would soon be expelled also.

Mr Teng Chiang-kai made the 1 charge upon his return from t Munich, where, at its meeting two weeks ago, the LO.C. ordered the i Nationalists to strike “China" - from their Olympic title on the - ground that they did not repreI sent sports on the Chinese malni land. Mr Teng said the LOO. had r acted against the Nationalists be- . cause the Communist delegates threatened to walk out of the , meeting if the China question 1 was not settled its way. During a press conference. Dr. Kiang Ti-seng, a spokesman for the Nationalist Chinese GovemI ment, attacked Mr Brundage, the , LO.C. president, and Mr Otto I Mayer, the LO.C. chancellor, t Dr. Kiang said Messrs Brund- . age and Mayer were “unjust, i arbitrary and discriminating*’ In handling the Chinese issue at i* Munich. r “On what legal ground or by t what stretch ofc imagination cart I we be denied “the privilege of t Identifying ourselves or being , identlfed as Chinese?” Dr. Kiang asked.

The legion’s commander (Mr Preston Moore) accused Mr Brundage and the 1.0. C. of “cowardly surrender to the Red blackmailers" and predicted that South Korea and West Germany would soon be expelled also. Federal and State funds already are being used to build facilities for the Games in the mountainous northern Californian winter recreation area. Mr Moore called the LO.C. an “atrocity against all who believe in the principles of justice and freedom.” He added: "The American Legion insists that Nationalist China must be readmitted to the LO.C. or Mr Brundage be expelled from the United States Olympic Association and a United States delegate appointed who can recognise the deadly tactics of the Reds as an exact parallel of the plot to get Red China recognised in the United Nations.” The president of Nationalist China’s Olympic . Committee alleged in Taipeh yesterday that the International Olympic Committee ordered the iWiooaUets to strike tJjr'Word “Cinna” from their title to prevent 9\ walk-out by Cpmmunist deleaaUW. ■ 7 I

“Mr Brundage and Mu Mayer may find it sporting to dabble in political semantics but nothing can alter .the fact that we are Chinese.”

Mr Teng said his committee would do everything possible to take part in the Games at Squaw Valley, and the 1960 Olympic Games at Rome. But he did not say what the Nationalists would do to get their title accepted by the LO.C. The Nationalists do not want to be known simply as “Formosa." but want to keep a reference to China in their name.