1948: PM Clement Attlee welcomes Olympic athletes
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Prime Minister Clement Attlee extends warm greetings to the 6,000 athletes from 60 countries who have gathered in London to take part in the Olympic Games.
Germany and Japan were not invited to the 1948 Olympic Games and the Soviet Union declined to take part. However, these were the first Games to be attended by any communist country, with Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland among those competing.
Originally broadcast on Home Service on 28 July 1948.
