GESTURE FOR PEACE
INTERNATIONAL SOCCER LONDON, Oct. 6 The Soccer match to bo played at Highbury, London, on October 26, when England will meet a combined European team, is aronsing unprecedented enthusiasm, and has been called ''Sport's grand gesture for peace." The European team will include a German and a Czech. The forwards will bo mostly Italians. There will also he representatives of Austria and Hun gary. The Daily Sketch suggests that the match should be played at the Empire Stadium, and that the Guards' Band should play, also that tlio King, as patron of Soccer, should greet the foreigners. The Daily Sketch adds: "Events during the past few weeks give this match an importance and dignity which no previous sporting fixture has had. It provides an opportunity of strengthening the bonds of sport, and is symbolic of the new era which dawned at Munich."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23169, 15 October 1938, Page 13
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