POST-WAR CIVIL AVIATION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 3, 29 September 1943, Page 5

POST-WAR CIVIL AVIATION

Britain Not Idle

CONFERENCES WITH DOMINIONS (Received September 28, 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 27. The British Government is coming in for much public and private criticism for its alleged “do nothing” policy regarding post-war aviation, cables the aviation expert of the “New York Times” from London. This fingershaking at the Government is prompted by a feeling that delay now means the loss of opportunity to compete later with the rest of the world, particularly the United States. However, it is no secret that the British Government is not sitting on its. hands. Indeed, a series of conferences with tne Dominions has been going on for months, but Mr. ■Churchill is so eager to co-oper-ate with the United States that he deliberately held off a declaration of policy for civil aviation till he can be reasonably sure it will fit in with American plans or at least not conflict with them. The general tendency seems toward co-opera-tion rather than competition, but the British .demands “for a fair share of the world air routes” means as much or as little as the same statement does in the United States because no one seems to know so far what a fair share really means. _