Should the Star Spangled Banner be sung in any language other than English? Should it be sung in English? Or at all?
What an important debate!
Last week, when in the Embassy of Finland, I picked up a brochure that had the Finnish national anthem in Finnish and in English. It looked much funnier in Finnish.
And, as the Adas Israel presentation to the Dutch Holocaust rescuer, the program had the Dutch national anthem in Dutch and English. This was a bigger problem, because once you see the Dutch national them in English, you realize that the Dutch are pledging loyalty to the King of Spain. For the sake of the Hague, I hope that they don't translate that one into Spanish.
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