11 MARCH 1938, Page 6

What I wrote last week about the Olympic Games of

1940, due to be held in Tokyo, gains some interest in the light of discussions on the subject which have taken place since in the Japanese Diet. The Army seems to have declared against the Games on the ground that all energies are required (and apparently still may be in 1940) for the prosecution of the war in China, and though the Minister for the Interior held, like Sir Francis Drake, that they could have their Games and beat the enemy too, it looks very much as if the Japanese would prefer a prudent cancellation to an external rebuff. * * * *