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THE NEW YORK TIMES, ENGLISH A D V O C A T E D AS W O RLD LANGUAGE Educators of Eight Non-English Speaking Countries Confer - ' LO N D O N . July 24 (U.R)— A com mittee representing the Ministries of Education of Belgium, Czecho slovakia, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia and the Fighting French today recom mended the establishment of E n g lish or French as a world language after the war— with a slight lean ing in favor of English. \ The committee was organized on the initiative of The Netherland |Minister of Education, Gerritt Boljjestein. A fter studying the need for a world language to facilitate post-war world collaboration, it suggested: 1. That English or French be compulsory subjects in higher forms of elementary schools of the European allies. 2. That the teaching of English be strengthened as far as possible in all schools in view of the im portant part it will play in inter-* national intercourse. 3. That all publications intended SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1943. for international reading be pub lished either in English or French, or be accompanied by English or French summaries. 4. That only English or French be used at international meetings. LISBON, Portugal, July 24 (Reuter) — In contrast to the recommendation of the Allied Edu cation Commission in London, Vichy Minister of Education Abel Bonnard has decided that Spanish, rather than English, shall be the first foreign language required for baccalaureate examination. However, according to the Paris newspaper Aujourd’hui, there are not nearly enough teachers in France at present qualified to give instruction in Spanish.
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