“Consider the problem of the fast-growing overseas centers just now emerging from their pioneering time — how they have slowly gained the confidence of medicine, religion, and the press; how they have finally grown into unity through an ever better application of our Twelve Traditions; how they have tried to make good their desperate lack of language translations; and how they have well begun to cross all barriers of race, creed, or social condition.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1960, “Our Pioneers Overseas”, The Language of the Heart
