BRITISH PROPOSALS
INTERNATIONAL CONTROL
CIVIL AVIATION
. (British Official Wireless.) (Received February 17, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, February 10. When the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference today considered the British proposals for the abolition of military aviation ant the control of civil aviation, Captain Anthony Eden, Unde Secretary for Foreign Affairs, maintained that unless air development was regulated it would "bring stark tragedy in its train." International control of' civil aviation was necessary .to make possible the abolition of aerial armaments, and the removal: of the air bombing menace.The American delegate, Mr. Hugh Gibson, said that its peculiar geographical position made.the application of the proposed control neither feasible nor desirable for the United, States. A committee of eighteen members has been appointed to dr.-. up the questions of principle contained in the original proposal and subsequent amendments.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 7
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