THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Esperanto Spurned

The movement to make Esperanto a world language for auxiliary international purposes received a rebuff from the Commission of International Coöperation, which had been invited to express its opinion on the question by the Assembly of the League of Nations.

The Commission decided to eschew synthetic languages, and to invite the League to favor the selection of a living language as one of the most powerful means for bringing the nations of the world together. English and French must fight it out.

Even Esperanto can be tinged with politics in the strange propagandist...

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