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Anthony Papp
President of the HSA

From: Magyar Cserkesz, Jamboree 1933
Newspaper of the 4th World Jamboree

JAMBOREE WELCOME
From Anthony Papp
President, Hungarian Boy Scouts Association

Brother Scouts, dear Guests,
The sixth Biennial Scout Conference in 1931 decided that the next International Jamboree and Conference should be held at Budapest-Gödöllö in Hungary and organized by the Hungarian Boy Scouts Association.

We undertook this fine but hard and responsible taskm and, with the help of God, we wait for our dear visitors to-day at the gates of the camp ready for the camping of our brother Scouts of the World. It is not easy to organize a World Jamboree in these days of world crisis, as Camp Chief Count Paul Teleki has repeatedly stated during the preparations. But we remembered the words of Lord Baden-Powell: "You will sometimes have to take risks if you want to succeed; take them, don’t shirk them — but take them with your eyes open."

We have not shirked. The construction is perhaps too splendid for a Scout camp. I want you to realise that it has been built by love, the love we feel towards those who are here, and have built up the Scout Movement.

The camp, as you see it here, is for the most part the work of Brother Scouts. Scout made the scheme, Scouts were the leaders of the work, and, what is most important, the workmen were selected among our unemployed Scout brethren. It was delightful to hear, as one walked through the camp, the gay Scout greeting, "Good Work," everywhere, out of the ditches of the water conduit as well as from the poles for the electrical lighting.

Lord Baden-Powell writes of traveling: "The journey … the new countries visited, the insight into the life of new peoples and a new atmosphere … opened my mind and gave me new ideas. They did for me in a few weeks what years of study could never have accomplished.

Your Brother Scouts have come from distant countries to participate in the World Jamboree. Few of you have known us up to now.

I want you to take this opportunity of studying the Hingarian Scout Movement, the country of Hungary, and the Hungarian Nation. I am convinced you will understand that love has built this camp. With these words I welcone you in the name of the Hungarian Boy Scouts Association.

ANTHONY PAPP
President of the Hungarian Boy Scouts Association.


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