The ISA's Office of Patriotic Affairs has announced the formation of an Olympic Training Committee. The new Committee will be tasked with the selection and management of athletes for the ISA's first International Olympic Team. Assistant Undersecretary Roger Warren will chair the group, and stated his enthusiasm in no uncertain terms.

"As home to the most driven and dedicated people in the world, the Industrial States has a responsibility to send its best into competition with the athletes of other nations. Our people deserve the opportunity to test themselves against the best other nations have to offer, and to prove that the ISA has what it takes to be the best in the world."

The 1940 Olympic Games will be held in Japan, in the cities of Tokyo and Sapporo. Undersecretary Warren seems confident that the ISA's team will be ready in plenty of time. "Of course this announcement isn't the first step we've taken. The ISA's future gold medallists are already hard at work in a top-notch training facility, specially designed for their needs. We're even tutoring them in Japanese, so they can make the best possible impression on their hosts."

None of the new American nations have participated in the Olympic Games since the breakup of the United States in 1930, though ironically they have hosted them. The 1936 Olympic Games—originally scheduled in Los Angeles, California and Lake Placid, New York—were hosted by the Nation of Hollywood and the Empire State respectively, in an unprecedented show of cooperation between the normally-antagonistic nations. The revenue generated by those events helped to stabilize and bolster their fledgling economies, and contributed to their rise to contend with the ISA for the status of most prominent North American nation.

Rumors have circulated regarding a bid by the ISA to host the 1948 Games, but no official word has yet been released. "Certainly it would be a privilege to host the Olympic Games here in Chicago—the greatest modern city in the world. I can't say if or when that might happen, but everyone knows that the Industrial States stands behind its commitments and delivers in a big way. A Chicago Olympic Stadium would be the best venue the Olympic Games has ever seen."