Thirty years have passed since Éva Janikovszky wrote Az úgy volt… The coin-operated phone-box in the street is no longer an excuse for a thirteen-year-old boy to slip out of his apartment. The international scouting movement has taken the place of Hungary’s “pioneer” movement. At the 1933 Boy Scout World Jamboree in Hungary Lord Baden-Powell announced, I want to see men of all countries at peace with each other. You are the future men of your countries, so be friends!” and urged the boys to swap addresses and become pen-friends.