4th World Scout Jamboree

The 4th World Scout Jamboree was hosted by Hungary, and was held in 1933. It was attended by 25,792 Scouts, representing 46 different nations.cite web | title=4th World Jamboree Gödöllõ, Hungary, 1933 | url=http://www.pinetreeweb.com/1933-jamboree.htm |author=Lew Orans |date=1998-12-28| accessdate=2008-08-12] They encamped in the Royal Forest of Gödöllő, about 11 miles from the capital of Budapest.

In attendance

It was the second-to-last Jamboree for the founder of Scouting, Robert Baden-Powell. The camp chief was the Chief Scout of Hungary, Count Teleki Pál, a member of the International Committee who later became Prime Minister of Hungary. Also attending was Vitez Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas, a general staff officer of the Hungarian Royal Army, who was appointed the Chief Scout of Hungary upon Teleki Pál's death in 1941. [cite web | title=Bela's Story: Scouting in Hungary, 1925-1937 |url=http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bhb.htm |author=Lew Orans |date=1996-12-24| accessdate=2008-08-12]

This event is notable as the first international gathering where Air Scouts were represented, including the famous pilots, László Almásy and Robert Kronfeld. [cite book
last = Pribich
first = Kurt
title = Logbuch der Pfadfinderverbände in Österreich
publisher = Pfadfinder-Gilde-Österreichs
date = 2004
location = Vienna
pages = 104
language = German] A meeting of Skolta Esperanto Ligo took also place at the Jamboree.

Every foreign group at the Jamboree was assigned a "cousin" - a Hungarian Scout who would serve as a translator and guide.cite web |url=http://www.scout.org/en/information_events/events/world_events/world_jamboree/jamborees_history |title=World Scout Jamborees History | author=World Organisation of the Scout Movement|accessdate = 2008-08-12]

Jamboree symbol: the White Stag

referred to the symbol of the Hungarian people in his farewell address to the assembled Scouts:

Quote|Each one of you wears the badge of the White Stag of Hungary. I want you to treasure that badge when you go from here and to remember that, like the Golden Arrow, it also has its message and its meaning for you.

The Hungarian hunters of old pursued the miraculous Stag, not because they expected to kill it, but because it led them on in the joy of the chase to new trails and fresh adventures, and so to capture happiness. You may look on that White Stag as the pure spirit of Scouting, springing forward and upward, ever leading you onward and upward to leap over difficulties, to face new adventures in your active pursuit of the higher aims of Scouting—aims which bring you happiness.

These aims are to do your duty wholeheartedly to God, to your country, and to your fellow man by carrying out the Scout Law. In that way you will, each one of you, help to bring about God's kingdom upon earth—the reign of peace and goodwill.

Therefore, before leaving you, I ask you Scouts this question—Will you do your best to make friendship with others and peace in the world?|From Baden-Powell's farewell speechcite web
url = http://www.pinetreeweb.com/1933-wj4-news47.htm
title = Au Revoir" — Not Goodbye!
author = Lew Orans
date= 1998-10-02
accessdate = 2008-07-16]

Among the boys attending was 14-year-old Béla Bánáthy, who met Baden-Powell when he inspected Béla's campsite, and was inspired as an adult to draw on the myth of the white stag from Hungarian mythology when he organized the White Stag Leadership Development Program in Monterey, California in 1958. In Monterey, Béla would meet Joseph Szentkiralyi (later Americanized as Joseph St. Clair); Paul Ferenc Sujan (whose stew was tasted by Baden Powell at that same Jamboree); and American Scouter F. Maurice Tripp, who also attended the Jamboree.

Related events

In 1994, after democracy and Scouting was reestablished in Hungary, the community around Gödöllő moved to locate and re-erect a statue by Lőrinc Siklódi commemorating the 1933 World Jamboree. In 1943, on the tenth anniversary of the Jamboree, a statue of a Boy Scout was erected across from the Guard Barracks in Royal Forest of Gödöllő, Hungary. When Communist forces liberated the country from Nazi Germany, the original statue by sculptor Lőrinc Siklódi was removed as the government moved to suppress Scouting.

After a long search, the original statue could not be found, and a committee was established with the purpose of erecting a new statue. They decided to enlarge Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl's convert|50|in|cm statuette entitled The Boy Scout. A student of Kisfaludi Strobl, István Pál, was chosen to complete the work. The new statue of a Boy Scout standing on the original pedestal was unveiled on April 23, 1994, commemorating yet again the 1933 World Jamboree. [ cite web|url=http://www.whitestag.org/history/history.html |title=White Stag History Since 1933 |accessdate=2008-08-17 |last=Phelps |first=Brian |coauthors=Alan Miyamoto, Fran Peterson |date=1998 ]

At the same time, the newly formed World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts held its first World Camp in Royal Forest of Gödöllő from July 25 to August 7, 1939, and attended by some 5,800 Girl Guides from around the world. They named the camp Pax Ting.

In 1993, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Fourth World Jamboree, the Hungarian Scout Association Magyar Cserkészszövetség hosted a Fourth World Jamboree Memorial Camp at Bélapátfalva, Hungary.

Teleki Pál, who served as Camp Chief at the Jamboree, is buried at Gödöllõ. He was Prime Minister of Hungary twice and a friend of Baden-Powell's. [cite web |title=Gödöllö, Hungary, 1933 | url=http://www.pinetreeweb.com/godollo.htm|author=Lew Orans|date=2008-12-23|accessdate=2008-09-07]

ee also

*World Scout Jamboree

References

External links

* [http://www.scout.org/en/information_events/events/world_events/world_jamboree/jamborees_history Jamboree Histories at Scout.org]
* [http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/inter/jambo.htm#1933 Jamboree Histories at Scoutbase.org]
* [http://www.pinetreeweb.com/1933-jamboree.htm 1933 Jamboree at pinetreeweb.com]
* [http://www.whitestag.org/ White Stag Leadership Development Program]