SPORT IS NOT POLITICS
CRITICISM OF TRADES UNIONISTS (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 5. At the Football Association’s dinner in honour of the Nazi team Herr Hitler’s health was drunk immediately after that of the King. The German team gave the Nazi salute while “God Save the King” was played. The president, Sir Charles Clegg, attacked tne Trades Union Congress and said that sooner political bodies learned that football was none of their business the better it would be. Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trades Union Congress, in replying today to Sir Charles’ charge that the organisation was perverting football, said that football was part of the Nazi regime. If the British Government confiscated the funds of the Football Association and abolished it. Sir Charles would be one of the first to object.
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Northern Advocate, 6 December 1935, Page 5
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