A Happy Ending

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A Happy Ending

I should probably have mentioned in the previous article that I have now returned from my short stay in Thailand and can once again respond to messages either sent to me personally or via the Discussion Forum. The evolution of the Esperanto movement in Asian countries (which I will continue to discuss for several weeks) has always seemed to me to be a fascinating subject and I hope that some of my readers will be able to add to my own articles on the subject from their own knowledge.

On the 12th of June, 1978, Guo Moruo died in Peking after a long and richly productive life which secured him a reputation as one of modern China's outstanding cultural personalities. He was a firm supporter of Esperanto and helped to establish the Chinese Esperanto League and its journal El Popola Cinio
http://210.77.134.157/EL/EL/ElPopolaCxin...
after the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

As I mentioned in my last article, he was also responsible for obtaining permission for Verda Majo and Liu Ren to return to mainland China from their exile in Hong Kong and for providing them with jobs. And had he lived for just a few months longer, he would have learned of - and possibly even taken part in - an event which would surely have brought him pleasure.

I refer to the emotional meeting which took place on the 18th of August in Peking at which Verda Majo's children met their mother's elder sister, Juki Ozawa, for the first time. Tears flowed on that occasion as they did later when Juki went to Shanghai. This was the first China city in which Verda Majo resided and it brought back memories of the day when the two sisters parted in 1937. Juki had gone to the port of Yokohama to say goodbye and, remembering how much her sister liked oranges, had slipped away to buy her one as a final farewell gift. Sadly, when she returned to the dockside, the ship had already cast off and was under way and she was just able to make out Verda Majo waving her arms at the ship's rail.

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