The Amateur Athletic Union today adopted a resolution withdrawing its participation in the 1936 Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Berlin, unless the German Government as well as the German Olympic Committee “in fact as well as in theory” encouraged Jewish athletes to prepare for the athletic events. The reason cited is that Germany violated one of the fundamentals of democracy in sport. Only one dissenting vote was recorded against the resolution.
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