The Johannesburg City Council has turned down the application of the South African Olympic and Empire Games Association for financial assistance to send a team of forty to the Olympic games in Berlin next Summer at an estimated cost of $650 a person.
The action was taken without a vote after members of the General Purposes Committee, which passes on such applications, had vigorously opposed financing a team if the games are held in Nazi Germany. The City Council had allocated funds for the South African team in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.
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