FOREIGN DOMINATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26413, 18 March 1947, Page 5

FOREIGN DOMINATION

INTERNATIONAL TRADE ROUTES CLAIMS BY AMERICAN OWNERS Rec. 1.45 p.m. NEW YORK, Mar., 17. The Sea-Air Committee representing 11 American shipping lines, asserted that the United States Government is allowing foreign airlines, which were controlled by shipping companies, to dominate the international trade routes developed over a century by American shipping companies which were forbidden to operate aircraft, yet foreign steam ship interests, which were in direct competition with American lines, predominated in the four foreign airlines certificated by the Civil Aeronautics Board under bilateral agreements. These lines were Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, and also the Australian National Airways, the operating company for the British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Limited, which, the committee said, shipping companies dominated to the extent of 94 per cent. The committee chairman, Mr Tiery Ford, said, “It is a preposterous situation where American citizens are denied the privilege which the American Government freely grants to foreigners. It is placing a smothering blanket of foreign competition over the trade routes of American shipping lines.”