CIVIL AVIATION

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22723, 26 October 1943, Page 5

CIVIL AVIATION

Development After

The War

Britain And U.S.A. To Resume Discussions

By Telegraph—N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright (11.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Leathers are going to America shortly to resume the discussion on post-war international civil aviation, says the London correspondent of the “New York Times.” The visit is an indication that the Empire policy recently drafted at the London conference has been approved by the Dominion Governments and liord Beaverbrook is now ready to discuss the question with American officials.

The importance of the coming conference at least equals the difficulties confronting it. Some high British Government officials believe that if the United Nations can overcome the technical, emotional and geographical problems latent in the air question it

will facilitate international co-opera-tion in the wider field of collective security. British and American officials agree that it will be necessary to establish some kind of organisation to run a network of air lines over Europe at the end oi the European war and, perhaps, sooner. Deep secrecy surrounded the recent Empire conference, but there is reason to believe that Lord Beaverbrook is being guided by the broad principles that international co-operation and the control of civil aviation is necessary and that international sovereignty as defined after the last war must be abandoned. The latter led to all sorts of difficulties. Turkey banned all foreign air lines, Yugoslavia insisted that all foreign air lines should use a dangerous mountain route and the United States declared that no foreign country operating across the Pacific could call at Hawaii—a fact which prevented any foreign country from establishing a widespread Pacific route but did not noticeably protect Pearl Harbour.