With barely two years left before the commencement of the ninth Olympic Gamey at Amsterdam, many countries have already started preliminary preparations and there signs of activity on the Fort lof the All-India Olympic Assceiation There will be no immediate meeting lof the Council but Dr, Noehren, the Honorary Secretary, has been' clrculating the provincial committees regard to certain important questions, including the vital problem of eligibility. Dr. Noehren suggest that in 1924 the participation was limited to statutory Indians, which included Bond fide Anglo-Indians, but excluded foreign citizens regard-loss of their length of stay in Ind As against this, Mr. Newham of ti Panjab Olympic Committee, who with the team in 1924, hal pot ed out that the team contained two European who participated under a birth qualification but would also have been qualified by residence in India, 'This was confirmed by' General Kentish of the British Olympi Committee, to whom Poi affecting British Empire teams w referred by the French Olympic Committee, and who pointed out that the Olympic rales provided that member of Britain, or a British Dominion or Colony could represent the country in the Empire where he resided; also that no qualifying period is laid down, which ecems to suggest that Englishmen can represent India if genuinely 1 here. The point isnot lik ly to arise very often, Dr. Noehren thinks it advisable to have a definite} ruling and la written to Count Baileev-Latour, President of the International Olympic Committee and to Mynheer G. Van Rossem, General Secretary of the Ninth Olympiad.
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