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WARSAW--A demonstration celebrating the attainment of a Polish-Hungarian frontier by means of Hungary's conquest of Carpathe-Ukrainia incited tonight shouts of "Down with Germany" and a clash between police and anti-Nazi students...
...swart Cuban, José Capablanca, chess champion of the world, arrived at Moscow. It was reported that (he Soviet Government had enticed him thither with much spot cash gold. There came also Dr. Emanuel Lasker (Germany) former world champion; Frank J. Marshall, U. S. Champion, and E. D. Bogoljubow (Ukrainia). They were met by 30 Russian chess players. After entertainments worthy of Lucullus, all sat down to play off the first international chess match to be held in Russia since the fall of Tsardom...
...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...
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