it is to be hoped that no real progress will be made by the movement to change the venue for the 1940 Olympiad from Tokyo to Finland, and thet it will die a natural death. Sport should be kept out of politics and politics out of sport. Of recent years it has developed along lines which have served greatly in bringing about international comprehension through a channel which had not up to then been explored, while political differences are so widely estranging various nations that it is desirable that some bridge should be left across which there may still move the possibility of an eventual common understanding. For those reasons a concerted attempt to wrest the venue from Japan would have to be deplored. That does not, however, preclude the sportsmen of the various countries, who would normally take part, from deciding themselves whether or not they will participate in the next Olympiad. That is a question solely within their competence to decide, but. if that decision is arrived it on purely political grounds, it will be just as regrettable as any combined effort having the same end in víew. The world is seeing so many of its activities drawn into the present maelstrom of hostility that care should be taken to see that every feature of life does not become involved. Religious leaders heve entered the wordy fray and done, perhaps, more harm than good, especially when it is remembered that religion should be cheve these temporal struggles. And for sport it might very well be urged that if its devotees are to take sides over matters which do not really come within its realm the increasing bitterness of to-day will only be intensified to no very useful purpose.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.