The Amateur Athletic Association at a special meeting today rejected, by a vote of 200 to eight, a motion by the Workers Sport Association for non-participation in the Olympic Games at Berlin this Summer.
While all speakers deplored racial persecution in Germany, the majority opinion that non-participation would not help those persecuted prevailed.
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