The Archive · 1938

ITALY'S DELEGATION

TO OLYMPIAD

Largest Even Sent, Promised to Japanese Tokyo, Mar. 21.

Italy will be represented at the XIith Olympiad by the largest delegation that has ever worn Italian colours in any international athletic contest, This assurance was given to the Olympic Organizing Committee here to-day by Dr. Pucci Pucco, Secretary-General of the Italian Federation of Light Athletics, who arrived here on Saturday with' the Italian Goodwill Mission to Japan, In his message, Dr. Pucco congratulated the committee on the decision of the International Olympic Committee, at its latest session in Cairo, to make no change in the award of the next Games to Tokyo.

Meanwhile, Marquis Koichi Kido, Minister of Education, announced in the Diet yesterday that Japan "will be able to hold the Olympic Games and the World Fair in Tokyo in 1940, on completely destroying the Chiang Kai-shek administration by that time."—Domei.

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