CONTROL OF THE AIR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18965, 12 March 1925, Page 9

CONTROL OF THE AIR.

BIiITAIN AND AMERICA. plea for co-operation. SERVICE TO CAUSE OF PEACE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 7.5 p.m.) Router. NEW YORK, Mar. 11. Brigadier General Lord Thomson, who was Secretary of State for Air in Mr. Ramsay MaeDonald's Labour Cabinet, in Britain, addressed a gathering of students at the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburg. He advocated a world-wide co-operation between Britain and America in the development of commercial aviation routes. The speaker explained that Britain was working eastward because of the necessity of drawing together the component, parts of the Empire, but most beneficial results would follow from a co-operation between the two nations. He suggested that Britain should continue working eastw: d through India to Australia and the tar East, and that America should work westward across the Pacific, in that waygirdling the globe between them. Their joint control of the upper air. continued Lord Thomson, should not be used boastfully or agressively. The knowledge that Britain and America were co-operating in progressive causes would inspire confidence in the friends of peace and sanity, and would render impossible another suicidal conflict like the world war.