ESPERANTO AND ENGLISH

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 56, 4 May 1928, Page 6

ESPERANTO AND ENGLISH

hjjfcj _ A NEWSPAPER TEST In STOCKHOLM. STOCKHOLM, March 14. Eipedanto is- Beting energetically bv 'Mr- Andreo • 011%, S Roumanian) .Catholip priest, touring in this [Country,, and .lie has formed fin Esperanto class of some twenty SWedish v M.P.'s, /.who. are now-trying to learn ( ih/;s. auxiliary language 'in one of the /committee rooms of the Parliament Buildings. Mr Cnb has 1 ; organised pußHd diseufeibiis in ! various.'towris, at which, however;, the majority of tho' spealc- , ers ha,ve< recommended Eriglish, ai being already the most wid&ly-apoke'ti language in the world, and especially useful for Swedes, whose language is so cognate with English in vocabulary, and intonation. The underlying ' ideh ,of the. Esperantkis seenis to be a fear ihait English'; once adopted as ah ihternationol auxiliary language/ will unduly create a prepohderehce of AngloSaxon ideas- and 1 polities arid >ah uti"sohhd standardisation of the world; especially for smaller States, while Germany, France, and Italy will re-' fuse to accept any other language tb'ian theit- own. v. ~ A Stockholm paper recently sent oiit- a. reporter for a stroll through ..the-; town,, inquiring in .English, 'French, German, Ido, arid Esperanto about streets, restliurahy, etc.," a'fifl the result was, he found, English tno most useful language. erctaFppuO ar'"n pmfwyp .shrdlubg