BRITAIN AT OLYMPICS
NO .AUB1 FOR LOST PRESHGE A JAPANESE VIEWPOINT An Englishman who has been living in Japan for many years and whose wife is Japanese, in the February issue of the English Athlete, pens spme information of vital interest. He says: "One will perhaps be pardoned for the suggestion that Great Britain make up her mind either to send the very plck of her tnen to the 1940 Olympic Games in Tokio, men only who stand afair chance to win, or stay out aitogether. In the eyes of the Japanese there is no 'alibi' possible for tgnominions defeat "The writer has lived in Japan many yeans , for a considerable poition of that time teaching at Governmpnt schools. as he does now. The almoet complete failure ot Britain In Olympics takes a lot ot explaining to the ultra-athletic youth here, who sea thereln signs only ot decadence, which, In thelr unlformed opinion, merely bear out the inferences they gather, also wrongly, from Britlsh foreign pollcles. "It Is unfortunate, but quite inevitable, that the power of a country should be judged, at any rate by the youth of other lands, by the power of ' the athletes sent torepresent it at competitive games."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 95, 8 May 1937, Page 14
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