The Manchester Guardian in an editorial yesterday demands that Great Britain stay out of the Olympic Games in Berlin next year since “the Nazis have injected the political poison of anti-Semitism into the principle of human equality upon which the games have been based and without which they are spiritually dead.”
The movement against British participation in the games was given added impetus by Philip Noel Baker, most famous of British Olympic athletes, who in a letter published by the Guardian urges the British Olympic Association not to send a team to Berlin.
Predicting that participation in the games will involve disastrous risks to Olympic principles, Mr. Baker charges that the Nazis “have injected polities in the most odious form into the organization of any kind of game and the process has been carried to the point where it revolts foreign observers. Its most execrable manifestations are the Nazis’ treatment of Jews.”
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