CIVIL AVIATION
CANADA AND US.A MAKE AGREEMENT I U.P.A.—Bv Electric Telegraph-Copyrightl WASHINGTON, 19th August, ilie way for a non-stop route linking Alaska with the United States has been smoothed by the completion of a civil aviation agreement with ( amnia. The agreement practically erases the air frontier. Aircraft will he able to circulate almost as if Canada and the United States were one country. American companies state that the route to Alaska has hitherto been baulked by British interests which, alarmed by American penetration towards Australia and the Orient, feared ttiat the granting ot‘ permission to fly non stop over Canada might interfere with their own plans for a service to the Orient via Canada.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 August 1939, Page 7
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114CIVIL AVIATION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 21 August 1939, Page 7
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