A Commentary on the Closing Ceremony from the Olympic Stadium, Berlin

This evening listeners will be able to hear and to visualise something of the symbolism and pageantry which is to mark the closing of the games at the Olympic Stadium. The trumpet fanfare; the final address by the Count de Vaillet-Latour; Beethoven's Sacrificial Song. The garlanding of banners by women, the hauling down of the Olympic flag, the firing of a salute, the departure of the flagbearers, the extinguishing of the Olympic fire. One minute's silence; and then luminous signs will tell the vast audience that the first Olympic Games were held in Greece in 1896 and that the next Olympic Games will be held in a country yet to be decided in 1940. The ceremony will close with the whole audience shaking hands, neighbour with neighbour, all round the stadium.