London, July 16.
The ideals of fraternity and devotion to duty fostered by the Scout movement were highly praised by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Lieutenant-Colonel John Colville, when he inaugurated the International Congress of Rover Scouts at Crieff today.
"There is much power behind your ideals," he told the Congress, which has gathered together Rovers, members of the senior branch of the Scout organization, from 42 different nations.
"This power will prove stronger in the long run than the forces making for hatred and division....We are unhappily living in a word in which much of the energy and a great part of the resources of many lands and peoples are concentrated on military preparations.
"In this country, as you know, we are armed and ready. But these are not the fundamental things on which our way of living is built up, and they are not, we believe, the things which will endur Colville concluded.—Hav:
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