Hoi!
the committee was right to step in
The Committee never did "step in" as such. Private individuals signalled this and other evident conflict situations to the Board. Since this particular problem had linguistic implications we were requested to give a recommendation, which we did.
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html