The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-06

bathrooms where Republican and Democratic national convention committees held forth last summer.
 Some of the sub-subcommittees on technical questions may be closed so that the committeeman can get their work done, but otherwise this will be noble experiment of openly arriving at an open convenant, with the press sitting in on all sessions to report what goes on.
 Delegations from 55 nations will be there. Some of the smaller coun- tries may have only one or two rep- resentatives, but the American del- egates and advisers will number 35 the British "A, Canadian IT, and so on, so that the total number of peo- pie present on official business may be somewhere between three or four hundred and thousand.
 THERELL BE OBSERVERS"
 In addition, there will be lot of interested parties hanging around, doubling or perhaps tripling the at tendance. They will be there on bus mess, though not on official business airline executives, bankers, law yers. manufacturers, shipping men, travel agents, importers, exporters, journalists, lobbyists, pleaders for special privileges.
 The conference was put in the Stevens because that was about the only available place big enough.
 Tho State Department put out 8 call for this conference of prelim- mary secret meetings that have been going on since last March with representatives of nearly a dozen na- tions-Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Dutch China, Brazil, India, Soviet Russia. U. s. interests are in the hands of a delegation headed by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle, Jr.
 The agenda was drawn up by the State Department, and it looks for midable, with work for four prin- cipal committees, each of which will have two or three main queS- tionS and numerous subsidiary is- sues for committees of experts to decide upon. When you reduce this agenda to simple terms and un- derstanoable parallels, however, it isn't so difficult to comprehend.
 MACHINERY WILL BE SET UP
 Spell 1t out in terms of the auto- mobile age, for instance, and you come up with something like this:
 The first committee will have to set up a temporary pattern of air bus routes for the next few years in which it is hoped to determine where the commercial business is going to be, how often the buSses should run, where they will stop, where they can pick up passengers and what the fares should be.
 The second committee, on tech nical standards, will draw up the traffic les-stoplights, maps, cus- toms regulations, and so on.
 The third will attempt to write principals for or perhaps actually draft an agreement to set up an or ganization that will regulate this business. This agreement will of course have to be ratified by Con- gress before it can apply to the U. s. It would be something like the U. s. Motor Carrier Act now ad- miristered by the Interstate Com merce Commission, only it would be an International Air Commerce Commission" regulating flying trucks and busSes.
 The fourth committee would work on an agreement for temporary T. c. C." to administer the work of the first and the second committees un- til the work of the third committee can be made effective.
 The question of whether the U. S. shall be represented by one chosen instrument" company or lot of competing companies doesn't come into this picture That will be re- served for later and purely dom estic fight.