GIRL GUIDE RALLY
COMMEMORATED IN STAMPS " FIRST PEACE PARLIAMENT'" The first world jamboree or rally of girl guides, which was held in Budapest last year and attended by 5000 girls from 23 different nations, including 230 British girls, has now been appropriately commemorated by a striking issue of Hungarian stamps. The first occasion on which the movement has been honoured in this manner, the issue comprised four stamps. Each, symbolical in theme, adopted, as "well as'l# central 'subject, the trefoil emblem of the guides and the inscription "I Pax Ting" (First Peace "Parliament"). One of the stamps showed an upraised hand giving the three-finger guide salute against a background composed of an olive spray. A second denomination featured the Madonna lily, the symbol of the Hungarian Girl Guides' Association, and a reproduction of the country's national arms. Two girl guides wore pictured on a third issue, one being in typical . national costume and the other in guide's uniform, while the concluding design represented the "dove of peace" hovering over the standard of the Hungarian Girl Guides. Twenty-nine different stamps have at times been issued by nine countries in the interests of the Boy Scout movement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 2
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