James,
Thanks for the heads up about Soros speaking  Esperanto. I spent the rest of the evening doing internet "research" on Esperanto. What is interesting to me is that the Scientology on-line publications are also printed in Esperanto. I still have to wonder if L. Ron Hubbard came to Alaska with the goal of searching out Richard Geoghegan . He sailed up the Inside Passage in 1940 and his boat broke down in Ketchikan where he ended up spending the winter. He said he came up here for a different reason, something about the radio. I wonder if he later came back up here looking for Geoghean.  There is a great story about Hubbard's time in Ketchikan written by June Allen that is on the internet.