A NEW FRATERNITY
BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS
\ (From "Th« Post's" Representative.) , ■' LONDON, December 20. In a letter to "The Times," Mr. H. S. Souttar suggests that in the air rather than at Geneva lies the future hope of the peace of the world. On September 17 Mr. Souttar left Hestori Aerodrome, with Captain T. Neville Stack as pilot, to perform an urgent operation on a Nepaleae princess, and returned by air to Penshurst on October 22. ■ Owing to their inability to carry large quantities of petrol their range was limited for the most part to 400 miles, and they, therefore, landed some thirty times in the course of a flight of 12,000 miles. His contact with so many' groups of airmen impressed him very vividly, and his illuminating letter is the result. ' He speaks of. tho international character of aviation, and then goes on to say: ; ■ '. . • "Wars have generally arisen from an inability to comprehond tho views of those around us rather than from any spirit of direct aggression. It is the mental barriers which have caused, the wars, and here we have soinothing which breaks down all barriers. There is some spirit in aviation which makes for good fellowship and for the comprehension of the point of view of the other man, and one has only to spend an hour with any group of airmon to realise this. For I do not believe that there is any group, of men in whom the standard of friendship and good fellowship and of admiration for the other man's achievement is so great as in any air squadron in any country. MESSENGER OF PEACE. "These men, meeting danger every day in their efforts to achieve progress, handling machines^ with powers of destruction the most terrible the world has ever seen, ftre men without fear and without enmity, bound together by the fraternity of a common interest and a common emulation. They inspire. one with the same confidence as does the London policeman in his humbler sphere, and I. for one look forward to the day when they will be accfepted as
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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348A NEW FRATERNITY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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