This Eighteenth Universal Esperanto Congress is the forerunner of the International Congresses of the future. It was not a congress just to talk about Esperanto as a language. That stage is past; people from half the countries of the world arose and discussed all the modern progressive movements conscious that one thousand delegates from thirty-nine different countries were understanding every word. An Esperanto International Summer University was another excellent feature. The Congress was called “The Congress of Joy.”

What could be more thrilling or more of a liberal education than to come to Edinburgh to this Universal Esperanto Congress! The very trip itself was extraordinary. As Esperantists journeyed through various lands en-route, they were met at railway stations and ship docks by friends in ‘Esperantujo’ (the Land of Esperanto). Each one felt himself at home and as one family, for his brothers and sisters speaking his dear language showed him the best of the sights in their city, and they showed him love. Later the trains pouring into Edinburgh with their universal passengers often had four or five sections. The Scotch Esperantists, many British and all those newly arrived from other lands met the incoming guests with the green flags flying high. The welcomes in one tongue reverberated back from the glass roof of the station.