The Archive · 1937

Question of Next Olympiad

France is Asked to Join Anti-Tokyo Group

Paris, Nov. 7 The Government will be asked to decide whether to dispatch Olympic representatives to Tokyo or to join in the group of Central European countries who are demanding a transfer of the 1940 Olympiad from Japan to Finland, it was learned here to-day.

Considered noteworthy was the fact that on Saturday the Yugoslavian Olympic Committee urged the French Committee to join in the movement to withdraw the Olympiad from Tokyo because "Japan's political attitude does not conform with the Olympic ideals of fraternity among nations.""—United Press.

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