PS postal card 1.25mk franked with “HELSINKI - HELSINGFORS* 17. X. 39” machine slogan postmark “XII OLYMPIA / 20. 7. - 4. 8. 1940” [design with Olympic circles], plus Brussels
(20.10.1939) machine slogan postmark, corner crease. Non philatelic and Scarce.

Note: The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XII Olympiad and originally scheduled to be held from 21 September to 6 October 1940, in Tokyo, Japan, were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II. The host would have really been Helsinki (FIN), runner-up in the original bidding process, as Tokyo had been stripped of its host status for the Games by the IOC after the renunciation by the Japanese of the IOC's Cairo Conference of 1938, due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Games were then scheduled to be staged from 20 July to 4 August 1940, but were suspended indefinitely following the outbreak of World War II and did not resume until the London Games of 1948.