THE WORLD LANGUAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 3

THE WORLD LANGUAGE

The problem of a'universal language was discussed at a session of the annual conference ol the Rotary International Association of Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Walter Henderson, of Australia, declared that it was the curse of the Tower of Babel that was preventing international ■ friendship. We wanted a living common language, one with a literature, one an which we could make love and one in which we could Swear, • a language full of emotion. The best language in the world that did not speak, he added, was the friendly wag of a dog's tail. Mr. Paul Thorwall, of Finland, said that on the Continent they had come to the conclusion that it was no use learning an auxiliary or. scientific language unless the great nations of the world taught that language in their schools. "But no other nation of the world would like another language to be accepted as a world language," lie said. "They agree, however, that English is not difficult to learn, -and I believe the nations of the earth are drilling towards English." .

There were 26,396 traffic accidents in Berlin last year, and 377 persons were killed, and 11,057 injured. •