Esperanto, Diplomacy, and Duplicity

Increasing need. Increasing resistance

In February 1922, Frederick J. Haskin was back on the topic of Esperanto. He had previously written about Esperanto in 1911. Eleven years later, it was still something for which he saw reason to devote an entire column.[1] As before, his column in the February 10, 1922, Yorkville Enquirer (and wherever else it may have landed) is too long to quote in full,[2] however, the page can be found here.

Haskins was an independent American journalist who sold his various columns to a variety of newspapers. There’s no Wikipedia page on him,[3] and I thought of providing some brief biographical data in my earlier post, but somehow that ended on the (metaphoric) cutting-room floor. Frederick J. Haskin was born in Missouri on December 13, 1873. He was into journalism, eventually starting his own business, calling it “The Information Bureau.” Haskin’s books include The American Government, Answers to Questions, How Other People Get Ahead, The Immigrant: An Asset and a Liability and Presidents and their Wives. According to a catalog record on the HathiTrust website, he died in 1944.[4]

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Professor Proposes Esperanto for League of Nations

Professor Murray
Not sure if he's reading
something in Esperanto.

Attempts to get the League of Nations to use Esperanto or another international language (in this case, Ido) kept coming. Although the French diplomat Gabriel Hanotaux tried to put this matter to rest in December 1920, that did not end the matter. In October 1921 (possibly), there was a resolution made by thirteen delegates to consider Esperanto. That resolution doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere (since we know that the League of Nations never adopted Esperanto), but that didn’t stop further attempts.[1]

That brings us to 1922. The Watchman and Southron of Sumpter, South Carolina clearly wasn’t worried about news not being sufficiently new, since their February 8, 1922 article is datelined January 9. I mean, it’s less than a month old. That’s still current right?[2] Though less than a century would elapse before the 24-hour news cycle, its spirit was still a long, long way away. Would a media outlet today cover a month-old story with no new development?

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Diplomat Predicts Future for Esperanto in Universities

The diplomat

John Barrett was a American diplomat, notable for his work in relations amongst the states in the Americas. Notably, he served as ambassador to Argentina, Panama, and Columbia in turn, though for the last two, he only served less than a year each. In 1907, he left his position as Ambassador to Columbia to help organize the Bureau of American Republics, of which he was the first director. The Bureau was later renamed the Pan American Union, and much later formed the basis for the Organization of American States.

On June, 16, 1910, the East Oregonian of Pendleton, Oregon, ran an article quoting Mr. Barrett, but the subject matter wasn’t South American diplomacy, per se. At the time, Washington, D.C. was gearing up to host the first ever World Esperanto Congress (the Universala Kongreso) held outside of Europe. Zamenhof was coming. This had the potential to be a big thing for the Esperanto movement, not just in the United States, but worldwide. Barrett told the press that Esperanto would soon be a subject of study in colleges and universities.

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