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Take a seat, Avery.

What's this I'm hearing

about a boycott?

Nothing's been decided yet,

but we're hearing some pretty

ugly reports out of Germany.

Apparently,

they're rounding up Romany Gypsies...

Gypsies!

...vandalizing

Jewish property.

They're using the sports clubs to

exclude Jewish athletes from trials.

They're putting up two women,

Mayer and Bergmann, both Jewish.

Two!

As a token gesture.

Well, maybe the rest

weren't good enough.

Excuse me?

Is this really the point here?

It is not the purpose

of the Amateur Athletics Union

or the American

Olympic Committee

or the International

Olympic Committee

to tell Germans how to

govern their affairs.

So you think we

should just sit back

and take their word that

they're going to play fair?

I'm saying politics

has no place in sport.

The AAU already accepted

the invitation to compete.

You wanna go back on your word?

If they go back on theirs.

There's a lot of hateful

literature coming out of there,

and it is not only

against the Jews.

Now they're saying they don't

want Negroes to compete.

Krauts got kicked in

the balls 20 years ago,

and they're still

catching their breath.

They need these games.

Show they're back on their feet.

Why would they

risk us pulling out?

Maybe they don't

think we have the nerve.

We have had every assurance

they will not discriminate.

And you trust

the word of a Nazi?

I've never met a Nazi.

Have you?

Come to think of it,

when was the last time

you played 18 holes

with a Jew or a Negro?

Come on.

The situation here is hardly comparable.

It's not?

You want to pull out of the greatest

sporting event in the world

because of a few rumors.

It's been a tough

few years here, too.

The American

people need champions

to remind them what

they're capable of.

I'm surprised you can still

see the American people

from all the way up there

in your skyscraper.

Screw you, Mahoney.

These games have

to be inclusive.

If I'm not satisfied

that the Nazis are going to

make good on their promises,

I have no alternative

but to recommend

a vote to boycott.

You can't do that. You can't do that.

You can't do that.

No, but I can urge each athlete

to search their conscience,

and I know a lot of

people on the American

and the International Committees

who feel the way I do.

But that's politics, that's not sport.

Okay.

We'll send someone

over there to find out.

Keep them in line.

Who do you have in mind?

I propose Avery.

I'm a builder.

Don't you have some

tame diplomat for that?

I think you're

just the diplomat we need.

Gather around.

Okay, we got some new exercises.

You're gonna think I'm nuts,

but we're gonna do 'em anyway.

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