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

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88 - 10 - To you the growth of the seed, which you have scattered among humanity. And venerable masters of the opposites, help us with a firm hand to build up the new temple of peace, humanity and love, as this is the goal of our work. I ask you, the temple of Solomon is in ruins, only the memory remained. The temple of today's culture trembles in the foundations and threatens to come together. We "Junáci Skauti" want to be a powerful rock block of your new building, the royal art." Here the Junak movement appears in a new, yet quite credible, meaning. Their close reference to the English model of Baden Powell, which is spoken of in the brochure as a Mason, to the choice of the high-level Freemasonry of Masaryk and Benesch as honorary protectors, the activity of Junak in international work suggests that in the secret political objective of Czechoslovak Freemachinery the role of a post-growth organization was given to Junak. It is not to be assumed that the members and perhaps also a large part of the leadership knew of the last goals; only the serviceability of the organization Junak for the purposes of world free masonry can be considered proven. Final evaluation. 880S5 The overall picture can be summarized: The Skaut-Verband Junak hides behind the external purpose of a romantic-young and harmless scoutdom the educational institution of the Czech youth directed in the sense of the resistance movement. Through international pan-Slavist and Masonic relations, the association from the past is most heavily burdened and no less suspicious in the present. According to clear evidence, the Junak has the task of mili-