抄録
The Subject of this study is to clarify that under what structure and how did the Government's Proposals for the Development and Extension of the Facilities Available for Physical Training and Recreation planned under the authority of the Board of Education in the latter half of the 1930's Britain, take effect;and to what extent could they influence the local authorities and voluntary organizations. In order to solve above problems, it is necessary to examine the following issues specifically. 1)How did the central government plan the structure to enforce the proposals? 2)How did the National Fitness Council that established as the coordinative and executive organization by the Board of Education, enforce them? 3)How did the representatives of the voluntary organizations comprehend and cope with them? 4)How and how much did the capital grants from the central government distribute to the local authorities and voluntary organizations? As the result of examining above four issues, this study come to the following conclusion. First of all, under the slogan of "National Fitness Movement" that could include all of the opinions of the intellectuals and representatives of the voluntary organizations, the government's proposals took effect. Secondly, by means of commitment to the local authorities and voluntary organizations, the physical training and recreation policy might have influenced the recreative activities of the populace lived in all the nation to a certain extent. Thirdly, some disputes, especially "sports-gymnastics" dispute that had been arisen in the process of enforcement of the government's proposals imposed the important task for the future concerning with the content and methodology for the promotion of physical training and recreation in Britain.
