FREEDOM OF THE AIR
POST-WAR PROBLEM DISCUSSED AT WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ((Rec. 11.50 a.m.) Rugby, Ocl. 1. At a Press conference to-day at Washington President Roosevelt disclosed that he and Mr Churchill had been discussing post-war problems for world-wide freedom of the air under which all nations would participate in an interlocking system of air lines He said he did not want to put the Government into a post-war commercial, passenger and freight service but believed all air routes should be operated by private concerns where such were profitable, and Government operations should be reserved for a few lines operated at a loss and intended solely for communication with new and distant territories. He stated that tentative planning for post-war air traffic had been in progress for the past six or eight months. All were looking to one simple objective—freedom of the air and the principle of allowing all internal aviation to be owned and onerated by each individual countrv.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 2 October 1943, Page 2
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