The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-15
OLYMPIC GAMES
 ARE GOING AHEAD
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 trouble in Europe. It was quite likely that Finland, a sponsor of many in- ternational athletic events in the last 20 years, would get them. Fin land made a strong bid for the games after Berlin played host in 1886, but the Japanese-backed by Germany and Italy, her allies in anti-communism won out. The United States made an official bid for the 1940 games through Grover Whalen of the New York world fair, but 1t seemed almost certain that it would be unsuccessful. London also made a bid but her invitation ap- peared weak in the face of Fin lands.
 Will Soon Decide
 The International Olympics con- gress will decide what country re- places Japan as the 1940 host. An emergency meeting of the congress probably will be called soon so that the new host will have as much time as possible to prepare. The fact that Japan probably would with draw has been evident since early this year when General Gen Sugyi- anna, then the Japanese war minis ter, told committee of the Japan csc parliament that no soldiers would be permitted to participate. He even suggested that Japan should give up the games and con- centrate it's energies on dominating China.
 A spokesman for the foreign office said that the cancellation move dem- onstrated Japans national deter imitation to put China in her place. r Possibilities might still be contin- uing two years hence" he said, "and therefore Japan is preparing for any emergency"
 Japan Tightens War Belt
 There have been other indications that Japan was tightening it's belt because of the war. The Tokyo World exposition, scheduled to end just few months before the Olym- pics, also was canceled. The nation had been placed on war footing. [ Money was the big question. Ex- penditures abroad and at home have been limited. The play" of Japanese has been curtailed drastic ally. Even dance halls have been closed.
 Cancellation was a bitter blow to Japanese sportsmen who have prided themselves on the fact that Japan had won international re- spect in almost every branch of sport. Japanese swimming teams have won brilliant victories. Japan csc track teams. especially the pole vaulters, also have earned interna- tional fame. Baseball in Japan al- most is as popular as 1t is in the United States. Bitter opposition to the Japanese acting as Olympic hosts has been stirred in various parts of the world by Japans war on China, especially the bombings of open towns in which civil popu- lations have suffered the most. Brit ish athletes had been advised to boycott the games and in the United States there had been sentiment against American participation.
 Spirited Bid for Games
 There was spirited bidding for the games. But informed quarters be- lieved they would go to Helsingfors, Finland, city that campaigned in- tensively for them at the 1886 Ber- lin meeting.
 London also was anxious to get the quadrennial competition, and was well equipped to handle both athletes and crowds. There was lit- tie chance that the New York invi- tation to stage the games on the site of the 1899 Worlds Fair would be approved since the United States acted as host in 1882 at Los Angeles.
 Doubts that Helsingfors was fi- nancially able to take over the games upon such short notice were allayed when minister of the inter for and the city municipal director announced that "Helsingfors is fully capable of staging the 1940 O)ympics and carrying them out on a high. sportsmanlike level" They said there was time for construction of an Olympic village, similar to those in Los Angeles and Berlin, and pointed out that if necessary big ships moored in the harbor and pri- vate families could accommodate the