Interesting Esperanto Postcard, Japan To Germany 1936

I just added this postcard to my collection, mailed from Japan to Germany on 8 September 1936 (Shôwa 11). The image is of the Old Lama Tower, a.k.a. Baita or White Pagoda, in Liaoyang, China, which (as the writer of the postcard notes) was located in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo at the time.

The message was written in Esperanto by one O. Higasi (Higashi) in Osaka and sent to Teo Jung in Köln (Cologne). Jung was the editor and publisher of the Heroldo de Esperanto, a newspaper that is mentioned in the message. What is particularly interesting about this card is that it dates from a time when the Nazi government was cracking down on the use of Esperanto in Germany, and the writer explicitly addresses the matter.

Here's a translation of what Higashi-san wrote:



I don't quite understand what he meant about transferring the fee to Esperanto Triumfonta, which was merely the original title of the Heroldo from 1920 to 1924. Did he think that Jung would resume publication under the old title? In any event, Jung relocated to the Netherlands and continued publishing the Heroldo until the Nazis shut him down there, too.

Sir, that card is so cool.

I agree a very interesting item.