Austerity Games of 1948 revive Olympic spirit after WWII
(World News USA)

After the controversial 1936 Berlin Games, it was important to believers in the Olympics that the first games after World War II be held without political and racial propaganda. Who better to host them then than the British, sticklers for fair play and ‘amateurism?` Besides, the British said they were owed the games after their 1944 hosting rights were canceled by the war. By 1944, when the war`s outcome was increasingly certain, the IOC and British had already begun thinking of the 1948 Games. When confirmation came, London had less than two years to pull it off.- Advertisement - Lord Burghley, a former Olympic hurdles champion and MP, led an organizing committee of men who all had titles...