"Master, how important is it to speak the World-Language very well, as contrasted with slapdash bungling?"
"It may cost 500 lives in the latter case. Enough?"
"I do not understand?"
"Then, think of accidents on say airfields. A plane with 300 passengers may land on the back of one carrying 200. Result, ... one fire-ball."
"But language? How?"
"Imagine a Russian pilot, or a Sudanese, murdering R.P. Received Pronunciation, in order to get landing instructions from a control tower, where a Spanish flight-controller who is murdering R.P. in his way, gives these instructions. The stage is set for a disaster, it is 'near (the) miss' all the time, as the bishop said to the actress. This is where t.v., even can teach you, namely that this point, clearly, is entirely neglected in the pilot and controller education. One can hear them speak English like a Dutch Diplomat, i.e. well nigh un-understandable. As I said, the stage is continually set for disaster. Says not Mencius: 'When Heaven sends down calamities, there is hope of weathering them; when man brings them on himself there is no hope of escape'. This, naturally, in view of stupidity. This lack of training and teaching in the World-Language, is one of these." [17], [67]