The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-11
COURT JURTsDICTTONAL PUZZLE

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 There was another agreement set ID by the Warsaw convention of iO33 which made nn important cotltrlbu- ton to international air transport development by establishing prOvlS- Ions for uniform liability. Suppose q Dutch plane loaded with British Italian and Tlrkish passengers crnHhcd into French pate dc foL, graS factory, killing the passengers and 10 French CanDery WOrkerB. Who BIcS whom in what courts for how much2 That B no academic question, but simple realism.
 Or, fl there B to be freedom of the air, will nobody be able to collect damageS2 Practical problems like these must be given consideration before there b any surrender of air Sovcreignty.
 While GINA provided for inter- governmental regulation of afr traf- fic, there was another form of con- tr0l found neccSsary, and this brings up the second of the pre.war reg IlatOry bodies, TATA, or Interna- tl0nal Air Traffic Association. ThiA was Q conference of air line opera. tors to control rates, schedules, ex- change use of bases. exchange Of weather reports. agreement on codes for inter.plane and plano.to-ground communication, establishment Of traffic codes npd all other Compli- cAted requirements of everyday BcrVlce.
 U. s. operating companies were members Of TAT'A and played q prominent part in its negotiations. TATA still functions. in fnct. In countries between which there H left b0me sembldnce of commercial nir traffic.
 It can be seen from the foregoing that nll these international air transport Ideas now being advanced ns something hot off the brain pan arc in reality old stuff tO people who have been working in this business since the last war. It is no exag- geratiOn to say that in recent con. [. grcssional debates on thh subject. nothing has been brought ID that has not been tried before.
 
 BIC POsT.WAR PROBLEM
 The ieda of freedom of tho air Itself h nothing confined exclusively 10 the post war world. The Dutch have been plugging freedom of thc air for i6 years and getting no place. The Dutch thought they had everything to gain and nothing to lose by adopting freedom Of the air m their national policy. They offered to let anyone fly planes Into Holland Nobody took up the offer for the simple reason there wasn't enough business there to warrant the trip.
 Such people who did want to gG tO Holland or over Holland by air flew in Dutch planes. To their ever. lasting credit. the Dutch did build I'D q firgt.cla@ international air line in their x. N. T.. I. M. routt which extended from London to ths Dutch East Indies and beyond. Then business is now all gone, but while it lasted, the Dutch thought it wai tO their advantage to let other pe0. ple fly over little Holland 10 they could fly over the big wide world Also, the Dutch thought they hat nothing to fear from the rest ol the world.
 They might look at the situation q little differently now. It is doubt fui If the Dutch would welcome { German airline in q postwar world nor would the Netherlands Easl Indies exactly welcome | Jap com mcrciaI airline into Batavia Of Bali
 What countries like the Neither lands might consider b C recipr0ca arrangement with friendly countries under regulation such as existet before the war under GINA aSit fATA 0r similar controls.