Chicago, Feb. 13 Labelling as "political talk" the efforts of a Chinese patriotic organization to gain support for a boycott of the 1940 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mr. Avery Brundage, President of the American Olympic Committee, declared to-day that the U.S. sports body "wil never be dragged into such a movement."
In a statement to newspapermen regarding the boycott movement pur-portedly started in Shanghai, the American Olympics official stated that sports should be kept divorced from politics.
Previously Mr. Brundage had maintained silence on the boycott talk The China association reportedly ed foreign Powers to boycott the Olympics in Tokyo because "Japan has declared she intends to drive the white races out of Asia and is conducting a barbarous war agai China."
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