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    "ocrText": "PEOPLE-to-PEOPLE SPORTS COMMITTEE Incorporated\nPEOPLE TO PEOPLE\n29th Floor\n48 WALL STREET\nNEW YORK 5, N.Y.\nSTATE\nWHitehall 4-8600\nFF\nDecember 25, 1957\nPROGRAM\nDwight D. Eisenhower\nHonorary Chairman\nEdward P. F. Bagan\nPresident & Board Chairman\nTo You:-\nDirectors\nJ. Lyman Bingham\nFor happiness and success Jesus Christ\nAsa Bushnell\nC.J. Devine\ntaught one pinciple - Love One Another.\nDaniel J. Ferris\nSidney L. James\nJoseph Prendergast\nSport is a common interest of all man-\nHarold F. Moor\nExecutive Director\nkind. Hence our work on the People-to-People\nSports Program.\nMembers\nDon Allen\nGeorge P. Apdale\nN. J. Barack\nOur athletes participating in international\nJohn Barrington\nDr. Joyce Brothers\nsport can help smooth the way for mutual understanding,\nJohn J. Carlin\nBob Considine\npeace on earth and good will to men.\nArthur Daley\nMiguel A. de Capriles\nDr. Albert de Ferrari\nJack Dempsey\nBest wishes for a Merry Christmas and a\nJoe di Maggio\njoyful 1958.\nRichard S. Falk\nJames A. Farley\nStanley Frank\nFord Frick\nSincerely yours,\nBernard Gimbel\nIsaac B. Grainger\nWillard N. Greim\nArthur B. Hancock, Jr.\nCarl H. Hansen\nBen Hogan\nBob Hope\nEdward Eddie P. F. Eagan Eagan\nClarence H. Johnson\nJohn B. Kelly, Jr.\nHenry Kemper\nHarlan de Baun Logan\nByron B. Martin\nBob Mathias\nJinx Falkenberg McCrary\nRenville H. McMann\nC. G. Mowatt\nStanley Mullen\nChester Nelson, Sr.\nJames Norris\nEmmett O'Donnell, Jr.\nJacqueline Cochran Odlum\nJesse Owens\nFrank Pace, Jr.\nCharles S. Payson\nLeo Peterson\nWalter Powell\nSamuel F. Pryor, Jr.\nR. Max Ritter\nStanley M. Rumbough, Jr.\nGeorge Skouras\nRed Smith\nHudson Stoddard\nEd Sullivan\nEdward Sullivan\nLowell Thomas\nRichard S. Tufts\nGene Tunney\nDeWitt Wallace\nMorton M. Weil\nMal Whitfield\n*Contributions Deductible From Taxable Income*\nWHY A PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE SPORTS COMMITTEE?\n1.\nTo create a greater general awareness among people interested in sports\nof the tremendous contribution they have to make in resolving the problems\nof expanding international understanding precedent to any real peace in\nthe world.\na. A good sportsman, because he has learned to practice \"fair play,\"\nhas a tremendous potential as a lay-ambassador of good will. One\ngood piece of evidence of this is the article written by Mrs. Betty\nSchmidt and published in the September issue of THE ARCHERS MAGAZINE\nunder the title, \"Six Americans in Prague Win Medals, Hands and\nHearts.\n\"\nb. The job which must be done is too big for government along. Besides,\ngovernment actions are frequently suspected of having some ulterior\nmotive, whereas, where common people exchange mutual interests, the\nresulting friendship is usually genuine.\nC. People in other countries appreciate the opportunity of learning how\nto improve their skills in various sports in which Americans excell.\nWhen they improve their skills the recreational value of the activity\nis enhanced.\nd. People, the world over, enjoy watching proficiency demonstrated, and\nwe Americans can well use the prestige which goes with such exhibition.\ne.\nPeople abroad, particularly in countries which are just beginning to\nmodernize, really appreciate small donations of equipment -- this\nbeing the only way in which they can enjoy our sports -- the equip-\nment is not yet being manufactured in their countries, and dollar\nexchange regulations prevents them from importing it even if they\nhad the money with which to do so.\nf. The man on the street abroad doesn't generally recognize the meaning\nof the millions of dollars which our government has granted his\ngovernment, but he can understand and does appreciate a few pieces\nof sports equipment which he can see his children use and enjoy.\n2. To assist American sportsmen, through the organizations of which they are\nmembers, in expanding their international exchanges of sports activities.\na. To function as a liaison between individuals and groups wishing to\npool their efforts.\nb. To provide supplemental financial assistance to individuals and groups\nwishing to participate in international exchange activities but not\nbeing quite able to realize them without some help.\nC. To function as a liaison between government and sportsmen in realizing\nthe most effective international exchange activities possible. (Time\nand place are frequently important.)\nd. To develop adequate, yet practical, orientation for sports delegations\ngoing abroad or visiting here.\ne. To assist in the establishment of counter-part People-to-People\norganizations abroad.\n3.\nTo conduct international sports exchange activities which no other organiza-\ntion is prepared to undertake---e.g an exhibit of American sports at the\nBrussels Worlds Fair in 1958.\n4. Although not specific functions of the People-to-People Sports Committee,\nthere are two beneficial by-products which may reasonably be expected:\na. An improvement in the physical fitness of our youth. In all proba-\nbility the prospect of a trip abroad, providing he or she develops\nproficiency in some sport, will induce many of our young people to\nspend more leisure in some physical activity and less watching TV\nwesterns or who-done-its.\nb. This expanded interest in sports will provide a larger number of\nmen and women from whom can be chosen those who will represent\nthe U.S. in the Olympic Games. This, together with the increased\nexperience these people will have in international competition in\nthe four year intervals between Olympic Games should make for a\nbetter showing on the part of American athletes.\n5. Officials of the Soviet Union understand the value of sports exchanges\nwith the free world, and are out-distancing us 15--1, according to the\nlatest available statistics.\n6. The billions we spend for defense to deter others from attacking us are\nspent principally to buy time while peaceful ideas take hold. Consequently,\nthe sooner we get the People-to-People Movement under way, the better ---\nnot only for us, but for the world.\n7. As President Eisenhower phrased it: \"If our American ideology is eventually\nto win out in the struggle being waged between opposing ways of life, it\nmust have the active support of thousands of independent private groups\nand institutions and millions of individual Americans acting through\nperson-to-person communication in foreign lands.\"\n8. Seventy-five nationally organized sports organizations have already identi-\nfied themselves with the People-to-People Sports Movement by designating\nmembers to serve on our committee. What is needed now are funds with\nwhich to secure further identification, a staff to serve all concerned, and\nfunds with which to carry out specific projects which they, individually,\ncannot handle successfully.\n9. If it is true, as has been said, that wars in the past were won on the\nplaying fields of England, is it too great a dream to believe that peace\ncan be won through the interchange of sportsmanship around the world?"
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