THE NEXT OLYMPIAD
JAPAN EXPECTED TO WAIVE GAMES TO ENGLAND BRITISH ATHLETES AGAINST TOKIO AS VENUE Press Association —By, Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 11. (Received February 12, at 10 a.m.l The impression is growing in athletic circles that Japan will waive the 1940 Olympic Gaines in favour of England. Mr.H. F. Pash, a member of the Executive Committee of the Amateur Athletic Association, in a speech at Chelmsford, declared that the association was unanimous that if the 1940 Olympiad were held at Tokio it should not receive the support of British competitors. This would mean that the United States and others would follow Britain’s lead. “ It is not a question of politics,” he said, but a matter of humanity and fair play, and fair play is the foundation of sportl”
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 15
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