JUNGLE ENGLISH
SIR,—Jungle English is by no means a monopoly of the English. It is also international. I take the following, at random and as a specimen of the whole, from the draft Charter of the International Trade and Employment Organisation, now being debated at the European Head- quarters of the United Nations at Geneva: "A system of the stabilisation of the domestic price or of returns to domestic producers of a primary product, which results over a period in the sale of the product for export at a price lower than the comparable price charged for the like product to buyers in the domestic market may be determined not to involve a subsidy on exportation under the terms of paragraph 2 of this Article if it has also resulted over a period in the sale of the product for export at a price higher than the comparable price charged for the like product to domestic buyers, and if the system is so operated, either because of the effective limitation of production or otherwise, as not to stimulate exports unduly or otherwise seriously prejudice the interests of other members."
I think I know what I think it means, but I am still not sure that it is
what the drafter thinks it means.—Yours faithfully, H. G. DANIELS. 45 Kirchenfeldstrasse, Berne.
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