1940 were supposed to be in tokyo anyway. 1937, a take the games away from tokyo after the , and helsinki,na those gains never took place either. there were also plans for so-called people's games in barcelona. -- i the republican forces should not say the republican forces -- those people who favored the republican side in the spanish civil war, which was just getting underway, were behind. brundage ended up touring germany as the boycott debate was going on. what was that for like, and what did he learn? predisposeddage was -- what happened, the boycott movement got so far, and so much political will behind it, not just mahoney, but nine governors, u.s. senators, congressmen, some of the most prominent citizens of the country, that brundage was forced from a public relations perspective to go to germany for essentially an inspection tour. the issue was, how they were treating the citizens, if they were according german-jewish athletes opportunities in the olympic games. brundage goes on a fact-finding mission. he had already written a letter to a publication suggesting that he was predi