ONE LANGUAGE FOR ALL PEOPLE
                 - declaration of the Grossman Club -

   If you are fed up with the divided world and the problem of multilingual
   communication join the Grossman Club.
   To become a member of the club you only have to declare your wish for
   obeying the VIII commandments of membership.
   Members of the Grossman Club have no doubts that the communication in
   the future borderless world will be based on one language only and that
   this fact will allow to save enormous costs of translation, training,
   misunderstanding and prejudice the mankind has to pay for its
   multilinguality.
   Members of the club declare to obey the following VIII commandments:
     I - UNITY - To avoid rivalrly between languages, members of the
         Grossman Club avail of the widespread usage of English in the
       $ global communication. They consider English as the international
         language for the present and only decisions at the highest level
         (e.g. United Nations) could change this choice.
     II - NONFINANCING - to accelerate the transition to unilingual
         community, all sources of finance that support noninternational
         languages have to be dried up. In consequence, members of the
         Grossman Club do not appropriate their incomes to buy books,
         newspapers, records, video casettes, computer media etc. that use
         noninternational languages.
     III - NONPROLIFERATION - members of the Grossman Club use only the
         international language in their publications, public appearances,
         artistic output etc.
     IV - NONPROPAGATION - to cut off the propagation of the present,
         multilingual status quo to the next generation, members of the
         Grossman Club bring up their children in the international
         language as the first language.
     V - PROMOTION - members of the Grossman Club declare to enroll two
         new members within two months after their own admission.
         They spare no efforts trying to change the view of other persons
         on the question of multilinguality.
     VI - REHABITUATION - members of the Grossman Club try to change
         their own and others' linguistic habits. This amounts to using
         the international language in their daily conversations,
         personal notes, private and possibly official correspondence etc.
     VII - SELF-IMPROVEMENT - a newly admitted member of the Grossman
         Club does not have to have a command of the international
         language. However, all members are obliged to constantly
         improve their linguistic skills. This must counteract the
         harmful conviction that a genuine linguistic education may last
         any shorter than the whole life of an individual or that
         truly deep interpersonal communication is possible without
         painstaking efforts to perfect of one's language skills.
     VIII - CONCILIATION - realization of all the aforementioned
         commandments is potentially dangerous especially when it has
         to be pursued on a highly bigoted, irrational or nationalistic
         ground. Therefore members of the Grossman Club are always
         sensitive to feelings and reactions of other people and do not
         allow the struggle for unity to create new divisions.

  The GROSSMAN CLUB idea was born in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984.

           WE ACT FOR PEACE AND HARMONY FOR THE WHOLE MANKIND!