SECOND TIME ROUND FOR MR BRUNDAGE

Avery Brundage, 84-yearold president of the International Olympic Committee, has told the world of his 'astonishment, shock and surprise' at the success of the African campaign to exclude Rhodesia from the Olympic Games.

No one, however, will be astonished, shocked or surprised at the attitude Brundage.

For this is not the first time he has advocated playing games with racialists. It was none other than the worthy Brundage who led the fight to stop the United States from withdrawing from Hitler's spectacular 1936 Olympics.

In November 1933, the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States voted almost unanimously to boycott the Berlin Olympics unless the Nazis permitted Jews equal opportunities in athletics.

But although the AAU dominated American sports the responsibility for US participation in the Olympic Games rested with the American Olympic committee. have failed to see what these laws meant in practice. The 'New York Times' carried a report, shortly after the laws were passed, which read:

'Gestapo visited the homes of between 300 and 400 Jewish families... Afterwards the heads of the families in question were conducted to meeting places in town and from there to various sports places in the suburbs of Nuremberg.

'Some of the people were arrested in the streets or in shops, others during the morning services in the synagogue.

'Besides the moral torture and the objugations those several hundred men had to endure, some of them were beaten and scourged. Several were tortured with steel rods and dismissed only after they had signed a paper saying that nothing had happened to them." there will be some group, some religion or some race that can register a protest because of the action of the government of that country, past or present.' 3 A few days later a German high-jump champion, Greta Bergmann-a Jew-was told only members of the German Light Athletic Association One of his chief supporters was a General Sherrill who was on record as saying that Mussolini was 'a man I have long known and admired'. The General had expressed a wish that Mussolini could come to America and 'deal with communism as he has in Italy' Left: Avery Brundage (centre) pictured in 1936 with other exPresidents of the IOC, the Belgian count, Henri Baillet-Latour (left) and Sigfried Edström. Above: Two German athletes featured in publicity as models of German Aryan womanhood. Below: Workers in a labour camp in 1936.

crystals were dropped through the ventilation shaft.

'After a quarter of an hour, other Jews were forced to clear the dead bodies and collect valuables, including gold teeth, which were deposited in special account at the Reichsbank 'The slaughter was given a