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Evening Star, Issue 23702, 9 October 1940, Page 5

Whether or not the Olympic Games will be revived after the war remains to be seen, but here is what an Australian writer has to say on the matter:—“The next Olympic Games are scheduled for London in 1944. If they are held, the Englishspeaking world must make an effort to run them on the lines suggested, by Baron Pierre de Coubertin when he revived the ancient games in 1896, sta-tes an Australian writer. Then the baron wrote: ‘ Before all things it is necessary that we should preserve in sport those characteristics of nobility and chivalry which have distinguished it in the past, so that it may continue to play the same part in the education of the people of to-day as it so admirably played in the days of ancient Greece.” On those lines the first of the modern Gaines took place in Athens. The contrast in 1936, when they were held in Berlin, was most marked, for the Germans abused many of the old ideals for the sake of furthering their Nazi propaganda."