A spokesman of the British Olympic Association in London said, "talk of boycott is a bit previous just now since we have not received an invitation for the Olympic Games."
He said that the Association would not decide on the acceptance of an invitation until after the Cairo meeting to be held next month from March 21 to 26 inclusive "As yet," he said "there is no indication of strong boycott movement in Britain, Finland, which, with Italy, had made a strong bid for the XIIth Olympic Games after the conclusion of the previous Games held in Germany in 1936, showed a general sentiment to favour cancellation of Games in a country which was at war.
A United Press correspondent at Helsingfors reported that the Finnish committee had not yet discussed the matter.
Italy indicated that she would give full support to Japanese claims, A spokesman of the official athletic group expressed the belief that the Chinese were engaging in a political manwuvre "which had nothing to do with sport,"
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