Word: chekoslovakia
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...general. Are we quite sure that the Hungarians are taking up Esperanto with that expectation? Possibly they may be using Esperanto as an introductory language instead of Latin. Will they find many speakers of Latin at Harvard? Perhaps they wish to enter into relations with their neighbors of Chekoslovakia, Poland, Ukrainia, Russia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Greece, not to mention the Baltic and Levantine nations. Why learn English, French, and German? Esperanto is sufficiently spread throughout Eurasia to make it practical to give one year of school time to it, instead of giving ten years to learning national idioms...
...national languages used, and with this in view calls it to the attention of the organization for communication and transit" (i.e., the International Postal Union). This was no snap judgment, but followed long consideration and debate. The vote was noteworthy, affirmative 14, negative 9. In favor were garia, Chekoslovakia, China, Finnland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Holland, Norway. New Zealand, and Rumania. A recommendation that all nations of the League put Esperanto into their school systems Albania. Bulgaria and Chekoslovakia have already done so; Finnland, and several states of Germany are supporting Esperanto officially or financially is still pending...
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