I hope you can recall the military phonetic alphabet.
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So does not teaching Latin.
Tons of stuff was written in Latin, right up until the early 20th century. Heck, Parliamentary debates in Austria-Hungary were in Latin so as not to favour either German or Magyar! It filled the role that Esperanto was invented to fill, i.e. be everyone's "second language" to aid communications. And not all of it has been translated.
In the late 1960s "the powers that be" just decided to stop teaching it. And now all that material is magically inaccessible.
Just as they wanted it to be.