MILITARISED SPORT
SCENE IN THEATRE
BERLIN, August 11. A number of foreign athletes loudly .voiced displeasure at a film exhibited at the Olympic village illustrating how certain physical exercises fitted soldiers for bomb-throwing and other warlike activities.
Athletes whistled and booed at -the 'militarisation of sport." German Army officers attached to the village protested at the interruption as .unseemly and asked the objectors to leave. A Swedish officer retorted that cinema-goers were normally entitled to express dissatisfaction. The Germans again asked the demonstrators to go, whereon, shouting "All right, we are going now," they de-
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Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 9
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95MILITARISED SPORT Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 9
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