Editing Leonardo Torres Quevedo (section)

====Esperantist====

[[File:1923-01-24, La Libertad, Figuras y figurones, Torres Quevedo (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|120px|Leonardo Torres Quevedo. ''La Libertad'' newspaper cartoon, 1923]]

In the early 1900s, Torres learned the international language [[Esperanto]], and was an advocate of the language throughout his life. From 1922 to 1926 he participated in the work of the [[International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation]] of the [[League of Nations]], where such figures as [[Albert Einstein]], [[Marie Curie]], [[Gilbert Murray]] and [[Henri Bergson]], its first president, attended.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Grandjean |first=Martin |date=2018 |title=Les réseaux de la coopération intellectuelle. La Société des Nations comme actrice des échanges scientifiques et culturels dans l'entre-deux-guerres |trans-title=The Networks of Intellectual Cooperation. The League of Nations as an Actor of the Scientific and Cultural Exchanges in the Inter-War Period |url=https://theses.hal.science/tel-01853903 |language=fr |location=Lausanne |publisher=Université de Lausanne|type=phdthesis }}</ref> Torres proposed to the Committee that it study the role of an artistic auxiliary language to facilitate the scientific ones relations between the peoples. Although almost half of the Committee members were in favor of Esperanto, his motion was strongly opposed by President Bergson, receiving a clear notice from French diplomats to put the influence of French culture first, which included the French ambassador in [[Bern]], who considered Torres a "farouchement espérantiste" ("fierce Esperantist"). In 1925 he participated as the official representative of the [[Spanish government]] in the "Conference on the Use of Esperanto in Pure and Applied Sciences" held in Paris, together with {{Interlanguage link|Vicente Inglada Ors|es|Vicente_Inglada_Ors}} and [[Emilio Herrera Linares]]. That same year, he joined to the Honorary Committee of the {{Interlanguage link|Spanish Association of Esperanto|es|Asociación_Española_de _Esperanto}} (HEA) founded by [[Julio Mangada]], and continued defending the language in other forums until his death in 1936.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=mgvZuQEACAAJ Conférence internationale pour l'emploi de l'espéranto dans les sciences pures et appliquées, Paris 14–17 mai 1925: documents et vœux, statuts de l'Association scientifique espérantiste],''Association scientifique internationale espérantiste, 1925.</ref><ref>(eo) Barrio, José Antonio del (2020). [https://bitoteko.esperanto.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11013/5936/Riverego142-144.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y "Kvazaŭ-ZEO* super la Niagaro".] ''La Riverego'', nr. 142–144, pp. 40–42.</ref>