NOT YET ABANDONED
Transatlantic Air Race (Received April IS, 6.30 p.m.) Paris, April 17. The Air Ministry, after consulting the Aero Club of France, announced that it had not yet been decided to abandon the trans-Atlantic race from New York to Paris, organised for May 21 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s solo flight. It emphasised that only the race’s postponement, not its abandonment, was being considered. The Air Minister. M. Cot, informed the Aero Club of France, according to a Paris message of April 16. that the international air race from New York to Paris had been abandoned owing to United States opposition. America urged postponement of the race on the ground that accidents would create a bad impression on the eve of the opening of trans-Atlantic commercial services.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 173, 19 April 1937, Page 9
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