International: Vivu!

Malamikete de las nacjes Kado, Kado, jam temp' está! La tot' homoze in familje Konunigare so debá.*

So 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.

At the 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...

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