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At the present time, there is no known [[Scouting]] program in Laos, one of only six of the world's independent countries that do not have Scouting. | At the present time, there is no known [[Scouting]] program in Laos, one of only six of the world's independent countries that do not have Scouting. | ||
In the 1930s, | In the 1930s, André Lefèvre, chief of the [[Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs de France|Eclaireurs de France]], set up a training camp for 60 Scoutmasters from all over French Indochina. At the end of [[1937]], French Scouting sent Scoutmaster [[Raymond Schlemmer]] to the Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese areas of Indochina to oversee the setting up of the [[Fédération Indochinoise des Associations du Scoutisme]] (FIAS, Indochinese Federation of Scouting Associations) in all three regions. | ||
From [[1939]] through [[1945]], the political situation affected Scouting activities all across the country, as World War II engendered a movement for an independent Laos. The French began to lose control and were finally overthrown by [[Japanese intervention]]. This ceased the French Scouts' activity in Laos, as well as all Scouting activities. | From [[1939]] through [[1945]], the political situation affected Scouting activities all across the country, as World War II engendered a movement for an independent Laos. The French began to lose control and were finally overthrown by [[Japanese intervention]]. This ceased the French Scouts' activity in Laos, as well as all Scouting activities. | ||