> From 1942 to 1944, working as a colleague of #WilliamEmpson's, he produced a series of broadcasts to India written in #BasicEnglish, trying to use its programmed simplicity, as a Tribune article put it,

'as a sort of corrective to the oratory of statesmen and publicists.'

Only during the last year of the war did he write 'Politics and the #EnglishLanguage,' insisting that the defense of English language has nothing to do with the setting up of a #StandardEnglish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_english#cite_note-17