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| Franklin D Roosevelt |
1942: A US president gives a speech in a language other than English for the first time. Franklin D Roosevelt addresses the Vichy troops in North Africa in French, urging them not to resist allied landings and to fight the Nazis.
1970: At a Phnom Penh conference, it is suggested that the “excellent linguistic rules” of Khmer are far superior to those of any other human language.
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