When peace was declared in November 1918 at the end of the first World War, there were Rotary Clubs only in North America, Cuba and the British Isles. In the next few years there was interest shown in Rotary in several European cities and, often by British ex-patriates in parts of the British Empire, and in South America. Clubs had already been started in Manila and Shanghai in 1919 and Tokyo in 1920. Johannesburg was in the process of formation when in 1921, the RI Extension Committee drew up a 3-part plan:-
To meet this interest and to help join up the far flung future clubs with mainstream Rotary, the Board appointed 'Special Commissioners' to deal with Extension. During the 1920s and 1930s, several of the people designated as 'Commissioners for Extension' were…
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