ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES
IN TIMES OF WAR
In giving reasons to the National Centennial Council why the Centennial projects should be carried out, the Hon W,. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, refer-.d to the Olympic Games of ancient Greece. "Undoubtedly these events" he ''will provide a Dorm of expression of human eHort and aspiration that has age-long secular and
spiritual in time of war as in time of peace. No gieater civilisation has ever blossomed on earth than that of the ancient Greeks, who maintained their Olympic festival unbroken for more than seven hundred years. How great in significance and importance -was the month in which the Games were held—a signification, of a period of< sacred truce between the continually warring States! We have there an example which should make us refrain from lightly abandoning our celebrations."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 66, 25 September 1939, Page 5
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138ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 66, 25 September 1939, Page 5
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