WORLD PEACE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1933, Page 3

WORLD PEACE

THE SCOUT MOVEMENT

QHRISTCHUBCH, .Novembc r . 15

Speaking at the scout rally on • 'Saturday the Governor-General, Lord Bledioloo, said that the Last war, like all •wars, was caused by fear arid suspicion, and, .above all, by a want of mutual knowledge among the peoples of the nations of the world. The British Empire .fought for freedom and justice in Great War, arid, in conjunction yvith her allies, she won. The motto pif itlm iscouis was “Re Prepared,’' sut it had no militarist significance. ;While it prompted them, he hoped, Ito ?bd brave in championing their ideals and to resist ,aU that was unrighteous and mean, it;,-, also (should warn them to develop comradeship, not only among their own people" but among those of other countries with whom 1 they might be brought in Contact, ’by mutual knowledge iamong the rising generation of all .nations, to fight, against those evil influences which.-caused natioiig to drift into war.

Theirs, s aid hi s Excellency, was a g|i*ea4 fighting organisation, but it w,as fighting »h ■ the ; 'interests, of peace and human happiness and not with a View ho human distinction. No recent occurrence had been more conducive to peace among nations than the scouts’ international jamboree which took place at God-olio in Hungary, the very centre of the !Bal|ka.ri I unrest, pn the presence of the world’s Chief Scout, their much respected' General, Lord Baden Powell, and which was .attended by rio fewer than. 25,000 boys coming from 40 different nations. They met as strangers • they parted as friends and good comrades. There they had a good indication. of the-power which their movement possessed to create mutual .friendship and comradeship among, the, nations i;und to .prevent wars from breaking out in days to come.

They ail .belonged to the great scout brotherhood, Hhe greatest youth movement that the world had ever seen. They had ’joined a great world-wide army, representing the pick of the boys of the world a great force brought together not to shed human blood' but to Tight bravely for all that was manly, honest, beautiful, and pure and against .all that was cowardly, dishonourable, and degrading.