Olympic Cavalcade

LOS ANGELES, 1932 -- BY 1932, in which year the Xth Olympiad was celebrated at Los Angeles, U.S.A., there were upwards of sixty members of the International Olympic Committee, presided -over by Count de Baillet-Latour, of Belgium. The Members-represented the following nations: .Argentine, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Central America, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, J:inland, Franee, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, Yugoslavia, Lithua~ia, Luxemburg, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, New Zealand, Persia, Peru, _Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Swede~; Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America and Uruguay. The International Commitee comprised Count de Baillet-Latour (President), Baron Goafrey de Blonay ~ (Vice-President), Lieut-Col. A. G. Berdez (Secretary), and the members were Lorci Aberdare, J. S. Edstrom, Marquis de Polignac, General C. H. Sherrill and S. E. le J?r. Lewald. The Hon. Herbert Hooyer, President of the United States, was Honorary .Presi– dent of the Games ot t:Be Xth Olympiad and at the head of the British Olympic A_ssodation, .presicled over by His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K..T., was the Chairman of the Coljhcil, Sir Hare2ld Bowden, and the three members of the International Olympic Coinmtttee, L0rd -:Aberdare, Lord Rochdale and Brig.-General R:T Kentish, C.M.G., D ;S.O. The British team was accompanied to Los -Angeles by Sir Harold Bowden, Bart., G.B.K, as Commandant, Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett, K;C.V.O., Frank Bowden, Esq., assistants to the Commandant, Colonel Evan A. Hunter, O.B.E., Secretary, and the Viscount Acheson, Assistant to the Secretary. The President of the Californi~ Olympiad Commission was William May-Garland, and the General Secretary Mr. Zack J. Farmer. - The.California Olympiad Bond Act of 1927 involved an amendment to the Constitution of the State of California. An Organizing Committee was formed and early in 1928 it decided that its major activities that year would be to secure a favom:~le vote by the people of the State on the financing plan. A campaign' for that purpose was started by the General Secretary ·in the Spring of 1928. At_the election of 6 November, 1928, California voted overwhelmingly in_favour of the Olympiad Bond Act. · . - . , At that time it seemed that more money from somewhere would be required, but actually the .entire project of the Games was carried through without any form of financial contribution or subsidy other than the money yielded by the Bond issue. - _ .., 170