POST-WAR AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 6

POST-WAR AVIATION

DISCUSSIONS IN AMERICA PROBLEMS TO BE SURMOUNTED Pross AssuciuUuli—By 'ltluyiapli—Uupynjjn. NEW YORK, October 2-1. Lord Jleaverurook, .Minister oi Stale, and Lord Learners, .Minister of Wai transport, are goin'g to America shortly to resume cue discussions on post-war international civil aviation, .says the London correspondent of ttie ' .New York limes.' llie visit is an indication that the Empire policy recently drafted at the Loudon conference has been approved by the Dominion Governments and that Lord lleaverbrook is now ready to discuss the question with American officials. The importance of the coining conference at least equals the difficulties confronting it. borne high British Government officials believe that ll the United Nations can overcome the technical, emotional, and geographical problems latent in the air .question it will facilitate international co-opera-tion in the wider field of collective security. British and American officials agree that it will be necessary to establish some kind of organisation to run a network of air lines over Kuropo at the end of the European war, and perhaps sooner. Deep secrecy surrounded the recent Empire Conference, but there is reason to believe that Lord ■ Beaverbrook is being guided by the broad principles that internatiotialeo-operation and control of civil aviation are necessary, and that international' sovereignty as dolined after, the last war must be abandoned. The latter led to all sorts of difficulties. Turkey banned all foreign air lines. Yugoslavia insisted that all foreign air lines should use a dangerous mountain route, and the United States declared that no foreign country operating across the Pacific could call at Hawaii—a fact which prevented any_ foreign country from establishing a widespread Pacific route, but did not noticeably protect Pearl Harbour.