The Archive · 1938

GAMES FOUNDER'S HEART TAKEN TO OLYMPIA

'Athens, Mar, 25, Crown Prince Paul, aecompanted members of the' International Olympic Committee and those of the Greek Olympic Committee left for Olympia at 8.00 this afterfioon in order to be present at to-morrow's ceremony when an urn containing the heart of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, "Father of the Modern Olympics," will be transferred into a sanctuary in that city.

'It will be recalled that Baron de Coubertin, the well-known Frenchman who organized the Olympic Games according to the ancient Greek sndards and who was the holder of 1030 Nobel Peace Prize, expressed the wish during his lifetime' to be buried in Olympl

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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