[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12713-12714]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         DENY OLYMPICS TO CHINA

  (Mr. SPENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Speaker, what fellowship does light have with 
darkness? What fellowship does the symbol of the human spirit, the 
Olympic Games, have with Chinese tyranny?
  Sixty-four years ago the Nazi propaganda machine proudly flaunted the

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1936 Olympic Games as an example of the leadership of Adolph Hitler. 
That horrible miscalculation by the International Olympic Committee 
gave credibility to a man and a regime that killed 6 million Jews.

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  Amazingly, 44 years later, the IOC granted the games, the 1980 games 
to the Soviet Union on the very eve of their launch of the war against 
Afghanistan. Today, the IOC is ignoring history and considering 
awarding the international games of peace to the People's Republic of 
China in 2008.
  I say again, Mr. Speaker, what fellowship does light have with 
darkness? What fellowship does the symbol of the human spirit have with 
Chinese tyranny? Let it be the voice from this citadel of liberty that 
the International Olympic Committee should say ``no'' to Beijing for 
the 2008 Olympic games.

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