U.S.A. AVIATION
POST-WAR RIGHTS. REFERENCE TO NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, February 23. “New lend-lease authorisation should make it clear that the United States expects permanent military rights over certain routes,” said Representative Maas to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, which has been considering the postwar air policy. Mr Maas said it was now apparent that the Axis would have completely succeeded if the United States had not intervened, and he added, “If the United States must again bear the burden of maintaining the principles of free dom we have the right to establish permanent aviation prerogatives.” He said that New Zealand had built 105 airfields for the United States and charged the entire cost to the United, States under the reverse lend-lease; nevertheless, after the war those fields would belong to New Zealand. Mr Maas declared that military, naval and air officers disagreed with the holding policy in the Pacific till Hitler was defeated, and they had wanted to throw everything against Japan since Pearl Harbour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1943, Page 4
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