HEALTH OF TROOPS
Advance In Medical Science (Received June 18, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 18. The marvellous health enjoyed by the Eighth Army indicated a revolution in medical science, said the secretary of the Medical Research Council, Sir Edward Mellanby. There was not much dysentery among British troops thanks • to good hygiene, but a lot of it in the Italian and German armies, he said. Protection against dysentery was given by two new drugs which undoubtedly saved many lives. The outstanding advance made during the war in the work against infection was largely by the discovery in Britain of three hew drugs of the sulphanilamide group.
POST-WAR AVIATION U.S. Manufacturers’ Views (Received June 18, 10.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON. June 17. Anticipating British-American conferences on the post-war use of world airways, 40 leading American aircraft manufacturers have issued a joint statement warning the Government against interference in domestic or international aviation after the war.
Recalling the Office of War Information’s recent prediction that America would have 500,000 planes in 1950, including a huge fleet of transports and cargo planes, also the vast armada released from military service, the manufacturers expressed fear that the Government may use these planes to establish hegemony oyer commercial air channels. The manufacturers contend : First, that the Government should not own or eon trol any planes engaged in domestic or international operations; secondly, the establishment of international routes should not be restricted or limited by governmental measures ; thirdly, postwar governmental dumping of military planes on the commercial market should not be permissible; fourthly, in order to guarantee equal opportunity for American planes, the Government should assure opportunity for American planes to compete with subsidized foreign lines or perhaps prevent such subsidizing; fifthly, surplus military planes should be returned to the original producers to be marketed.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 226, 19 June 1943, Page 5
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