REGULATION OF AVIATION

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1933, Page 7

REGULATION OF AVIATION

BRITISH PLANS AT GENEVA

UNITED STATES OBJECTION

‘‘ GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION ”

MR. EDEN FEARS TRAGEDY

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. British Wireless. Rugby, Feb. 16. When the general commission of the Disarmament Conference considered the British proposals for the abolition of military aviation and the control of civil aviation, Mr. R. A. Eden, British representative, maintained that unless air development was regulated it would bring stark tragedy in its train. International control of civilisation was necessary to make possible the abolition of aerial armaments and the removal of the air bombing menace. The American delegate, Mr. H. Gibson, said its peculiar geographical position made the application of the proposed control neither feasible nor desirable for the United States. A committee of 18 members was appointed to draw up questions on the principle contained in the original proposal and subsequent amendments.