Before the cancellation of the holding of the next Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1940, it had been planned to send out most of the Strength through Joy fleet on a world journey to Japan, visiting American ports en route. Another project being worked upon is the- idea of employing Strength through Joy ships in off- season periods to bring back Germans in distant countries on short visits to the Fatherland. It is understood that the scheme of enabling "foreign Germans" (Auslandsdeutsche) to return to the home country is already being carried out on a limited scale in Hungary where a special Strength through Joy office is maintained in Budapest for this purpose. |