The Archive · 1938

Tokyo Olympics

New York, July 11.

The American Olympic Committee, faced with demands for a boycott of the 1940 olympiad at Tokyo, is conducting a poll of the nation's athletes to determine whether they favour American participation.

The poll also.seeks to find out how many athletes are planning to enter the trials, whether they will be able to make the trip in the event they make the team and the attitude of students who would be compelled to miss more than a month of the autumn school semester because of the early date of the games in Tokyo,—United Press,

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