The Washington times., 1936-08-01
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Games
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of this sort, the human touch" ."
A little blonde-haired blue-eyed
girl stepped timidly up to the
Fuehrer and placed in his out
stretched hand tiny bouquet Of
flowers. There was then the in
evitable pat on the head and muir
INJURED thanks before officialdom
took over the proceedings.
1t fell to Theodore Lewald,
president of the German olympic
committee, to greet Hitler as
patron of the Olympic games. r"
He said that the tremendous and
enthuiastic participation Of world
nations in the Olympics bears wit
ness to the high ethical ideal be-
hind the Olympic oath.
Upon the heads Of great and
small alike fell a chilly. drizzling
rain, dimming some of the pag-
eantry of the occasion, but none
of the enthusiasm.
A plcl that Olympic sportsman.
ship be made the cornerstone of
new and better relationships be-
tween the nations of the world
was the keynote Of the ceremonies,
with the Fuehrer himself injecting
this utopian political note into
the proceedings.
Torch Arrives
The Olympic torch, sped to Ber-
lin from Athens by relays of
marathon runners, reached the
LuStgarten in the heart of Berlin
at 1880 p. m. today, to be re-
ceived by $4,000 Hitler youths.
Mammoth crowds cheered the
painting runner, one of a relay of
1000 who carried the flame from
Greece's capital. They sang
Deutschland Uber Allies" of i'm
perial renown and the Horst Wes-
sci song of Nazi days, with three
"heils" for Hitler to cap the eli
max.
Hitler welcomes Group
Hitler spoke upon receiving
members of the International
Olympic Committee at the chan
cellory.
He said:
"The Reich gladly and joy
fully undertook the task of pre-
pairing for this years contests
in a manner that StrOve to do
justice to the grand ideas and
traditions of the Olympic games.
"She hopes in this way to be
instrumental in strengthening
the ideal on which the games ere
based and which brings nations
together"
Indy Expected
In their vast numbers the
crowds thronged early to the sta
dium, and long before Hitler ar
rived for the ceremony at 5 p. m.
The innumerable series of collat-
eral events arranged by the Nazis
were under way.
Guns roar, trumpets sound, and
planes buzz like angered bees.
Hitler's Black Guards form a
grim, forbidding Gordon all along
the Unter Den Linden, dividing
the town in half as though by a
Chinese wall. Only the stark real
ity of the Roman Coliseum or the
illuSory gaudiness of Hollywood
would be capable of reproducing
this scene.
Armed Troops Present
Armed soldiers in camouflaged
trucks and buses are oddly at
variance with the amity and good
will of the occasion.
The nearby 400 American
athletes, headed by Color Bearer
Alfred Jochim, New Jersey gym.
mast and three-time Olympic com.
petitor, doubtless feel lost today
among these scenes of magnifi'
cense and unreality. They plan to
salute with their straw hats, dof-
fling them and holding them
straight out, to avoid the booing
the American team received at
Garmisch- -Partenkirchen, wher
their "eyeS right" was miSunder.
stood.
-"VOTE AMERICAN"-
Fresno Coach a Trojan
Jim Bradshaw, Fresno State
College football coach, was fresh
man coach at Stanford for eight
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