ESPERANTO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1943, Page 3

ESPERANTO

4 MASTERTON CLUB. INTERESTING CIRCULAR LETTER. At the weekly meeting of the Masterton Esperanto Club, presided over by Mr E. J. Esler, an interesting circular letter was received from the president of the N.Z. Esperanto Association, Mr B. Potts. Mr Potts reported that in Great Britain the potential value of the international auxiliary language in the post-war world was fully* appreciated and Esperantist organisations were in consequence very active. The society of Esperantist teachers, which had a pre-war membership of several thousands, was holding its usual summer school and at the congress of the Scottish Esperantists it was reported that the language was well established “north of the Tweed.” This circular also quoted the remarks of the former president of the British Association, Sir Richard Gregory, who said, when addressing the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux: “Among important international problems facing us now and after the war is a means of expression in a language easily learnt and usable by all civilised peoples of the world. It is to be hoped that academic as well as scientific and commercial organisations will assist in the movement towards an agreed auxiliary language.”