CHIEF GUIDE’S STORY
Husband’s “Big Mistake” SCOUT MOVEMENT’S APPEAL (By Air Mail). LONDON, March 21. The "one big mistake” made by Lord Baden-Powell was described by Lady Baden-Powell, the Chief Guide, when she addressed the Durban Rotary Club. "When first my husband started the movement, which everyone thought quite mad and bound to fail, it was started for the boys of Great Britain,” she said. "He spoke to the late King Edward about it, and the latter, in his far-sighted way, asked why it was copyright only for British boys.
"My husband then made the one big mistake that I have known him to make. He said the movement was so purely ritisfi that nobody else would take it up. It was no sooner established in the Empire than all the other countries came along and took up the movement and developed it.’’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 6
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