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‘internal’ or ‘political’ affair. It is an affront to all humanity. The discrimination, amounting to virtual exclusion, against their and your own members from equal participation in the international games, because of conditions affecting them that render it impossible for them to participate with dignity or on equal terms, is so repugnant to our conceptions of true sportsmanship that for your organization to submit to such conditions, or to ‘pussy-foot’ on the subject, would be a gratuitous degradation for you, in which your fellow-citizens would share, and one that I hope you will spare us and yourselves.
“After all, barbaric Germany is not the only country on earth in which to hold these games. The atmosphere would be less contaminated and purer in almost any other country on earth that might be selected.”
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