Hope for an unbiased survey of discrimination against Jewish athletes in Nazi Germany waned Friday when the newest issue of the Olympic News revealed that Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Association, left for the Reich last month with a pre-conceived determination to accept the Hitlerland invitation to hold the 1936 games in Berlin.
Although Brundage purportedly went to Germany to study the anti-Semitic situation as it affects athletes there, he makes it clear in an article he prepared for the Olympic News before his departure that he is satisfied Naziland is the home of “a race disdainful of sharp practice, tolerant of the rights of others and practicing the Golden Rule because it believes in it.
Brundage’s article makes no direct reference to the Jewish question but the Chicagoan had previously hinted he viewed accept-
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