TRANSPORT BY AIR

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10350, 13 March 1925, Page 3

TRANSPORT BY AIR

COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES. BRITAIN AND AMERICA. (Per Press Association—Copyright). NEW YORK, March 10. Brigadier-General Thomson, who was Air Secretary in Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s Cabinet, addressing a student assembly at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, at Pittsburg, advocated world-wide co-operation- in the development of commercial air routes. . Britain, he explained, was working eastward because of the necessity of drawing together the component parts of the Empire, but the most beneficial results would follow world-wide cooperation between the two nations. The British were working eastward, through India to Australia and the Far East; the Americans westward across the Pacific. Thus between them they wore girdling the globe. _ Joint control of the upper air, he continued, should not he used boastfully or aggressively. The knowledge that Britain and America were at one and co-operating in progressive causes would inspire confidence in the friends of peace and sanity and render impossible another suicidal conflict like the World War.