Czchoslovakia As Europe’s Air Juncton
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3. A civil air transport agreement, which will open the Balkans and Middle East to an easy air approach and promises to make Czechoslovakia the most vital transport communications centre of Central and Eastern Europe, was signed by the Foreign Minister (M. Masaryk) and the United States Ambassador (Mr Steinhardt), says the Prague correspondent of the Associated Press.
The agreement is a development from the Chicago Civil Aviation Congress and Mr Steinhardt said it was the first agreement to include all five freedoms of the air embodied in the Chicago resolutions.
Pan-American Airways already have been given the route from America via London, Prague and the Middle East to Calcutta, and the service is expected to begin "soon.
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Northern Advocate, 4 January 1946, Page 3
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