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Britain and the U.S. were urged last week to join in a massive drive to export one of their most precious natural resources : the English language. As a "truly universal language," said Sir David Eccles, Britain's Minister of Education, English could become "a great instrument for the creation...
English is already the mother tongue of 250 million people; it is the second language of 250 million others. It has long been the language of world commerce and, said Eccles, is rapidly becoming "the accepted language of development and aid in all continents." Even Communist-bloc engineers on foreign...
"English," said Eccles, "is now so far from being the suspect channel of Anglo-American culture and propaganda that it is accepted as the medium of rebellion and anti-colonialism." Britain's government, he said, is "under continuous pres sure" from new nations in Africa and Asia that need...
To make their language "the common possession of the whole world," urged Eccles, English-speaking nations should launch an intensive campaign to improve mass teaching media, make available texts, film strips, records, books, radio and TV courses. The U.S. and the Commonwealth should also send "the greatest possible number of...
Education Minister Eccles (Winchester and Oxford) warned, however, that English may yet suffer the same fate as Latin, the world's first truly international tongue, which became fragmented into French. Italian and Spanish after the fall of the Roman Empire. "The danger is very real that English will break...