Word: esperanto
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...sang the young founding students of Esperanto, the universal language, back in 1878 in Bialystok, Russia (now in Poland). Last week postwar Esperantists were again vocalizing, but to a different tune...
...first Danube Valley Esperanto Conference recently held in Budapest,† with Communist blessings, 230 delegates launched an approved program for systematizing the teaching of Esperanto in the high schools of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Bulgaria...
Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...present Esperanto version differs slightly from the 1878 language; the English translation: Hatred of nation for nation Fall, fall, it is already time! The whole of humanity in one family Must unite themselves...
...memorial is a Gothic community center built by Mrs. Jones in 1925. It once housed an Esperanto school, still contains an art gallery and 8,000 books. Lithopolitans go there for movies and organ concerts. Last week the memorial had also become an educational cornucopia...