The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-21
lNEA Service Writcrl

Washington-Of diplomatic re- Iations with Soviet Russia we have none, but aeronautical rela- tions between the two countries are close and cordial.
 The governments do not even speak to each other. but each lis- tens sympathctlcnlly whom the others Ayers ask permission to ny over It's territory and for any nee essary help. Otherwise. Colonel and Mrs Charles A. Lindbcrgh wouldn't be able 10 make their forthcoming flight and Post and Gatty couldn't have made theirs.
 You have to have permission to fly over or land on another nations territory. Foreign flyers. when they head over the United States. even have tO have the permission Of every state governor, although the state department handles that for them as q matter of formal routine.
 Despite our governments con tinued non-recognition of the SO- viet, long distance flyers have had to accord more recognition year after year. Russia covers such a large section of the earth's surface tha. it has been harder and harder to make any flight that would at tract attention without crossing q part of it. Post and Gatty flew about $500 miles over Russian soil during their great 1b.500- mile l flight. Next summer. it seems like | ly. someone will be attempting q non -Stop flight around the world and that presumably will involve more Soviet cooperation than eyer | when Soviet planes are used tt rcfuol the flight plane In the air. Senators Cable Moscow
 Applications for Soviet pcrmis. sion are made here to Boris F Skvirsky, head of the Soviet Union Information Bureau. who some. times k referred to as Russih'i "unofiiclal hmbassadOr." Skvirsky transmits the requests to the for eign office at Moscow. which in. variably acquieBccs. For some ren' son unknown here Post and Gattl were at first refused permission but the foreign office almost imme' diatcIy reversed itself. Senatori Thomas and Gore of Oklahoma had also chbled Moscow on behall of Post and Gatty. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho has cablcd tt Introduce Hugh Herndon ant | Clyde PangborD on their projected world flight.
 Communications about fuel CT route are handled by the AmtOrJ Trading Corporation nt New York permission for Colonel. and Mr. Lindbergh to land during tbei cruise down the Siberian coastlin' after they cross Behring Strait eI route 10 Japan. Llndbergh also ar ranged to land Japanese oil ant gas on Kamchatka and will receive cooperation from the Soviet Avih ton Society. the Soviet oil Trus and the Soviet weather service. Although the national govern ments do not entertain visiting aviators. they flyers get enthusias tic just the same. Post and Gatt. reported here that they receive, such welcomes during their fiv stops In Russia and the Aviation Society gave them banquet fl Moscow.
 Aerial Reciprocity
 Most of the American -Sovic aeronnutical relations have in vOlvcd our own flyers. but severa U. $. government departments state. navy. treasury (with its coas guard) and agriculture (with it
 weather burcau) witt the Moscow New York flight of tn
 Land of the Sovieteg' two year ago. We saw to it that the Russian
 had their gas and oil waiting fo them M the far end of the Aleu- tians. that they got latest wcathe
 reports and that their way wa
 grehscd IN smoothly as any gov