Word: teleki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned by Regent Horthy to succeed Dr. Imredy was 60-year-old Count Paul Teleki, Hungary's Boy Scout leader, a Catholic Transylvanian nobleman, an expert geographer and member of Britain's Royal Geographical Society. Notable it was that...
...Count Teleki retained the former Premier's Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
...Scout of the World. When he stepped spryly off the steamer, hailed by Hungarian Scouts who had been forewarned. Lord Baden-Powell was sped to a more than regal abode, an historic tent used by the Magyar conquerors of Hungary in 900 A. D., now the property of Count Teleki and loaned by him to the Jamboree...
...great patron of scouting. Count Teleki was in charge of the vast Scout Camp which had its own police, hospital, specially constructed water and lighting systems and a Jamboree newspaper published in five languages. Scottish Scouts stepped out in kilts, French came in green jumpers, blue shorts and berets. Swart Egyptian Scouts wore fezzes, Irak turned out in sun helmets, Siam sent scouts in black hats displaying a tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were...