<P> Sweden decided to withdraw before the vote, allowing the only remaining candidate Italy to take the hosting job for the 1934 World Cup . The decision was ratified by the FIFA Congress in Stockholm, Sweden and Zürich, Switzerland on 14 May 1932 . The Italian Football Federation accepted the hosting duties on 9 October 1932 . </P> <Ol> <Li> Italy </Li> <Li> Sweden withdrew </Li> </Ol> <Ul> <Li> Argentina </Li> <Li> France </Li> <Li> Germany </Li> </Ul> <P> Without any nations withdrawing their bids before the vote, the FIFA Congress convened in Berlin, Germany on 13 August 1936 to decide the next host of the World Cup . Electing France took only one ballot, as France had more than half of the votes in the first round . </P>

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