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(By Air Mail—Special to Daily News.)
ANNIVERSARY OF ESPERANTO. VAIN HOPE FOR WORLD PEACE.
London, March 25. At Warsaw this summer there will be, simultaneously with similar observance at London, Edinburgh, and other cities of the United Kingdom, a grand celebration of Esperanto's fiftieth anniversary. Every country in Europe, every State in the Americas, and half the Oriental "nations will' be represented at these festivities. By a cruel stroke of -fateful irony; the inventor of Esperanto, Zamenjiof, whose cherished hope was that Esperanto would bring about a world peace, djed just twenty years ago when the World War. was at its most frightful stage. There are many thousands of Esperantoists scattered all over the habitable and even barely habitable globe, and wireless seems to promise a distinct help to its popularisation. One big snag is the divorce between Northern tongues and the Latin basis of Esperanto, but even this is being bridged. At the London conference at which anniversary plans were discussed, however, I noted that the discussion was conducted in ordinary English!
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1937, Page 7
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175BIG CELEBRATION Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1937, Page 7
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