Question: which city was to host the 1944 Olympics but we're canceled due to world War ii
Context: John Young Squires (May 3, 1912 – July 25, 2006) was an American men's soccer coach.  He coached the Connecticut Huskies between 1937 and 1941 and from 1946 to 1968.  The 1943–1945 seasons were canceled due to World War II so the only season during that time that the Huskies played without Squires was 1942, when they were coached by Carl Fischer.  Joe Morrone took over for Squires beginning in 1969. The T-1 tractor (also known as DT-1, "Direcția Tehnică 1") was a project developed by the Romanian Army during World War II.  A total of 1,000 were ordered.  It was designed to tow a Romanian 75 mm gun.  After five prototypes were produced, the project was canceled due to the lack of priority. Edward "Eddie" Julius Schroeder (January 20, 1911 – December 1, 2005) was an American speed skater who competed at the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics.  In 1932 he finished eighth in the 10,000 m event.  Four years later he again finished eighth in the 10000 m; he also placed 12th over 1500 m and 15th over 5000 m.  He was selected for the 1940 Olympic team, but the games were canceled due to World War II. The 1916 Summer Olympics (German: "Olympische Sommerspiele 1916"), officially known as the Games of the VI Olympiad, were scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany, but were eventually canceled due to the outbreak of World War I.  Berlin was selected as the host city during the 14th IOC Session in Stockholm on 4 July 1912, defeating bids from Alexandria, Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest and Cleveland.  After the 1916 Games were cancelled, Berlin would eventually host the 1936 Summer Olympics, twenty years later. USS "Fargo" (CL-106), named after the city of Fargo, North Dakota, was the lead ship of her class of light cruisers of the United States Navy, most of which were canceled due to the end of World War II. The 1918 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") was to represent the University of Alabama in the 1918 college football season; however, the season was canceled due to the effects of World War I.  B. L. Noojin was to serve as head coach for the season.  University officials canceled the season as a result of multiple opponents canceling their contests against Alabama and a military policy that only allowed for the team to practice for less than one hour per week.  Alabama also did not field a team in 1898 due to campus rules prohibiting athletic teams from traveling off campus to compete and in 1943 due to the effects of World War II. The 1948 Summer Olympics (also known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad) was an international multi-sport event held from July 29 through August 14, 1948, in London, United Kingdom.  It was the first Olympic Games to take place in twelve years, due to the Second World War (and was known informally as "The Austerity Games" - largely due to countries having to bring their own food due to shortages in Britain), with London being chosen as the host city in March 1946.  London had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, and was due to have hosted the event in 1944.  A record 59 nations were represented by 4,104 athletes, 3,714 men and 385 women, in 19 sport disciplines.  Following the Second World War, Germany and Japan remained under military occupation and had not yet formed their National Olympic Committee, and so were not invited.  The only major Axis power to take part in the Games was Italy.  The Soviet Union also did not form a National Olympic Committee and was ineligible to be invited to compete.  However, they did send observers and competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.  Following the threats of a boycott from Arab countries should an Israeli team fly their flag at the opening ceremony, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) excluded Israel from the Games on a technicality. Ellison Myers Brown Sr (September 22, 1914 – August 23, 1975), widely known as Tarzan Brown, and Deerfoot amongst his people, was a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon, in 1936 (2:33:40) and 1939 (2:28:51).  A member and direct descendant of the last acknowledged royal family of the Narragansett Indian tribe of Rhode Island, he also participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.  He was scheduled to participate in the 1940 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, but these were canceled due to the outbreak of World War II.  Tarzan Brown is still one of only two Native Americans to have won the Boston Marathon (the other being Thomas Longboat of the Onondaga Nation from Canada, in 1907) and the only Native American to have more than one victory in Boston.  He was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973. Leonhard "Leo" Freisinger (February 7, 1916 – August 29, 1985) was an American speed skater who competed at the 1936 Winter Olympics.  He won a bronze medal in the 500 m and placed fourth in the 1500 m event.  He won the U.S. National Indoor title in 1937 and 1938 and the National and North American Outdoor title in 1940.  In 1938 he set a world record over 500 m at a meet in Davos, Switzerland, but Hans Engnestangen beat this record a few minuted later.  Freisinger was selected for the 1940 Olympics, but they were canceled due to World War II.  Later he became a figure skater in professional ice shows, and coached the 1964 American Olympic speed skating team. The 1944 Summer Olympics, which were to be officially known as the Games of the XIII Olympiad, were cancelled due to World War II.  It would have been held in London, United Kingdom, which won the bid on the first ballot in a June 1939 IOC election over Rome, Detroit, Lausanne, Athens, Budapest, Helsinki and Montreal.  The selection was made at the 38th IOC Session in London in 1939.
Answer: London