NATIONS MUST ACT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 26

NATIONS MUST ACT

CO-OPERATION ESSENTIAL AIR TRAFFIC HINDERED "The network of. air-lines-now connecting all large centres form ,a-ri ideal link between all. nations regardless of frontiers," wrote.General: Italo Balbo, Italian Minister-: of Aviation, as one of I;ho ait authorities .invited to submit suggestions to tho Committee on Cooporation between Civil Aviation Undertakings at'its meeting at Geneva under the auspices of the -Transit. Committee of tlie League of-Nations; : says the "Christian Science Monitor.". '..- General Balbo. went on to ;Say tli.-i.t increasing safety was' essential to the. development; and. consolidation of civil uvation. Italy was not concentrating on adding to the guarantees of safety by improving the-personnel and material and establishing a more • frequent service on the principal lines, rather than by increasing the number of lines. In orderto develop commercial aviation on international lines, General Balbo considers that all nations should adopt the idea of effective co-operation in air navigation with a view to simplifying existing regulations. Dr. Hugh Eekner said he believed air navigation is ■" destined to render valuable services in the sphere of passenger traffic and mail carrying, especially when great distances have to be covered. Air traffic is likely to bring the peoples nearer together by affording them an- opportunity of appreciating foreign achievements and of understanding the value Of these achievements to civilised humanity. If, however, world-wide air traffic is to be organised, agreements must bo concluded between States; taking into consideration their legitimate requirements. Such agreements can be concluded successfully only if nations work together in trustful co-operation to share in the benefits of the now improvements which aro continually being .-achieved in the technical field. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's statement, to the effect that aviation must bo considered from an international standpoint, was received Bth July. Tho present aviation conference is the result of the work of a committee of experts of civil aviation of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission. The delegates include leading air repre- , sentatives from a number of nations.