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i nKwr* * irwmoiw, wesaryan, DrKalb, and others.Sherrill Meads Vizi Attitude to Jews in Olympicsa.i (yaiSav* \nm«ing l .S. Ire Again-*! Hrirh Max BoomerangI(o»! M; mi ftp!balt;miftBNEW YORK. Oft 22 no*. Brigadier Ortt*r*l Char hr* H Sherrill, American member of the interna* tksai Olympic committee, holds out the pnwibility that Amen.*n ath* Jetra may resent attempts by »» to thwart American*' charter* m rum* prtlng In the Olympic fames, easing anti-semitic trouble here Returning from a »eym-»r*k» §uy i tei Id Clermany yesterday, he said: !nT«m\s got SOOOOO athlete* m of thla country preparing to try for the Ohmpw **mcs and a trip to Ger- - gu many.Now then. If these athletee sud-denly realus* that about five million Jem* out or the spprowmatrty 130 million people m thla country are attempt wig or hat* mcceeded is deprtsm* them of thrlr opportunity. we are almost certain to have anti-Msautie trouble that will u*t for many year*.'*The fmoral, a former Yale sprinter. took laeue *ith Jetemiah T Mahoney of New York, president of the American Athletic Union of the United State*, who had suggested that Dr, Theodore Lr«*id. president of the Or mum Olympic commute rthrnrMahoney said Dr. Lew a id «u be-Inf used aa a screen U* conceal the | °i lt;erman government s num flacrant violations of Olymptc Ideal* of fair play of all -General HherrtB. who declined to cnmmwtl on a request by the ' roan-tnttee on fair play In sport* * that he urge the withdrawal of the United Mates from the comprtttton. said:* U doe* not concern me one tut the way the Jess in Oermanv are being treated, any more than the lynching of negrort in the south of our own country “Germany has invited two mu* landing Jewish athlete* Heir ue Mayer, the fencer, and Gretei Berg* maim, the liigh Jumpri to paruri-pale on Get man Olympic team* Whether or not they accept the invitation does not matter Germany ha* done her part by invtuug them in good faith. That ought to anewer any rbargee of dtacrtmtnatkui *In Berlin. Dr. Lewrald. in reply to Mahoney • chargee, said: * tvery Jew and every German Cathohc has « ftvtly the him chance and right to compete for place* on our ittf Olympic teams aa any athlete of an-other eoufr'ston.-HithaW renting Ijsat Night.PORTLAXD. Me . «*»—Cwneml
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Tue, Oct 22, 1935
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