It Has Been a rare privilege this afternoon to hear these excellent papers describing widely divergent linguistic situations in neighbor nations stretching from the South Seas to the Canadian Rockies in the Far Northwest. The distinguished speakers have given our own Program a new perspective; and their contributions are a generous response to an FL Communiqué which we sent last August to some 160 persons in thirty-five countries, in an effort to tell our foreign colleagues the story of what is happening to languages in the United States. Our situation is of course different from any of those described, but this very diversity can suggest to us valuable lessons.