FLYING SHY

Evening Star, Issue 26028, 17 February 1947, Page 3

FLYING SHY

DIPLOMATS AND AIR TRAVEL (Special—By Air Mail.) LONDON, February 5. Diplomats to-day Seem to regard air travel with rather mixed feelings. Mr Churchill has always taken it more or less in his stride. His intimation in the later phases of the war of his readiness to meet Mr Stalin and President Roosevelt “ any time and anywhere ” is still remembered. The late President Roosevelt, despite his physical disability, was equally accommodating. On the other hand, Mr Truman,' who seems to disagree with the Russian Generalissimo about the desirability of an early meeting between the .three “ tops,’’ has made it clear that, in his view, such a meeting, if it takes place, should be held in Washington. Mr '.cieii, though he braces himself to go by air when it is necessary, dislikes it intensely ever since one ghastly flight he had over the Alps during the later phases of the war. Mr Bevin, for his part,, avoids it whenever he can. When he goes to Moscow* next month .lie intends to take the sea : Tonte, even though it involves the cold journey to Leningrad and then on to Moscow* by train.