NON-STOP AIR ROUTE
U.S.A.-ALASKA LINK
CANADIAN AGREEMENT
(Reed. Aug. 21, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. The way for a non-stop route linking Alaska with the United'States has been smoothed by the completion of a civil aviation agreement with Canada.
The agreement practically erases the air frontier. Aircraft will be able to circulate almost as if 'Canada and the United States were one country.
American companies slate that the route to Alaska hitherto has been baulked by British interests, which were alarmed by the American penetration toward Australia and the Orient and feared 'that the granting of permission to fly non-stop over Canada might interfere with their own plans for a service to the Orient via Canada and Alaska.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 21 August 1939, Page 5
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