A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2043, sig. 109-7/50

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87 so-called Slavic Jamborees (Grossjugendlager) took place, 193l in Prague, 1935 in Poland, 1938 in Yugoslavia, at which secondments of all South and Western Slavs were represented. The contact with the world pathfinderdom resulted on the so- called world-Jamborees. The World Jamboree of the Year l94l was to take place in Prague in the year l937 in the Jamboree in Holland. The international connections were partly maintained in the form of a very lively private foreign correspondence by the members, but officially with special care by the leadership of the Junak itself. It is remarkable that in the autumn days of the year l938 the Junak became the first association to continue the old friendship in spite of the general mood of England and France (see Junak magazine "Činovik", year XIX, No. 2). The current state of international relations has not been clarified. However, after the Junak did not make a change in any field of work compared to the level of l938, the continuation of the former international connections still has to be reckoned with, at least in the form of private correspondence. Junak as an instrument of the world Freemasonry. Zdenko Štekl "Skaut - malý zednář" gives us remarkable hints from Junak to the world Freemasonry. In this writing, which appeared only in an edition of 300 pieces in March 1938 with determination for the narrowest circle of leadership of Junak, it is emphasized that the oath orders the Scaut for his whole life into the great world brotherhood of Masonry. The brochure concludes with the following confession: "You great Masons of past times, look from the eternal Orient to our youth.