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Franklin D. Roosevelt, amerikai elnök levele az amerikai fõcserkészhez,
Walter W. Head-hoz a IV. Jamboree kapcsán
The White House
Washington
Walter W.
Head, Esq.,
President, Boy Scouts of America,
New York, N. Y.
July 20, 1933
Dear President Head:
As Honorary
President of the Boy Scouts of America, I take great pleasure in extending
greetings on behalf of this Association to the Scouts and Scouters assembled
at the Fourth World Jamboree and Seventh International Conference of Scouting,
representing practically the whole civilized world. Since the beginning of
our Scout Movement in America twenty-three years ago, more than five million
men and boys have been enrolled as members, and on their behalf I send this
message to Lord Baden Powell, Chief Scout of the World and to brother Scouts
abroad.
It stirs our imagination and kindles our emotions to contemplate the possible
implications growing out of this pilgrimage of these young men and boys representing
more than seventy different nationalities camping and living together for
two weeks in good fellowship and harmony.
The future basis of international good will must rest on mutual understanding
and loyalty to high ideals. Such gatherings as this are among the most important
contributions to world peace that have ever been developed.
I wish the Boy Scout Movement every success in this splendid undertaking and
earnestly hope that the magnificent possibilities of this occasion will be
realized to the Greatest extent.
Most cordially,
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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