The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-10

2. Absolute freedom for the planes oT any nation to fly any place at any time, subject only to regulation for the sake of safety and military security. This theory would be ad- vantageous to the smaller nations like the Netherlands and Sweden which will want to fly across other countries.
 3. Something in between these two extremes, with freedom to fly any, where but with regulation of rates, national subsidies and similar com petitive practices, and limitation on rights to pick up or discharge pass engers and freight in domestic transport within any country's own borders. This is the position favored by most American interests want ing free competition.
 HOW THE CARTEL PLAN
 WOULD WORK
 The first idea involves division of territories and granting of monopoly rights. For instance, the United States would be given rights to fly to South America and to Hawaii. On reciprocal basis, the United States might be given right to fly to certain western European ports and to Australia, Singapore and China. The British would br given monopo- ly rights to all her domlnionS and colonies.
 The same with the Russians, the French, the Chinese or any other nation. Each nation would have full sovereignty of its own air and who could fly In it or land on its soil.
 The effect of any such splitting up of the worlds air business would be to limit the expansion of U. 5. in- ternatlonal air transport. A number of the delegationS from other coun- tres, Slngly or in concert, may be expected to support this theory of how international aviation should be rigidly controlled For the sad fact IS that many nations with in- ternational aviation ambitions of their own fear competition of the United States. They fear mechanic al excellence of American transport planes, skill of the American pilots, aggressiveneSS of American air transport business.
 The whole effort of these countries which want to check the American aviation industry will therefore be bent on keeping down expansion of American interests in the interna- tional air.
 ITS UP TO US TO
 CONVINCE THEM
 The job of the American delega- tion at Chicago will be to convince delegates of oEner powers that these fears are groundleSS and that the policy of uivlslon of territory and absolute control of commercial fly ing by an international air authority is a short-sighJed policy.
 The fact that American combat planes and pilots have been thrown, into the air all over the world to keep that air free has no weight in thls case. This is cold and calculat- ing business, which is a much harder game than war and played for big ger stakes.
 To the argument that the United States aviation industry has gained a great advantage during the war in the building of long-range transport and heavy bombing planes which could be flown over the oceans while nations nearer the front built short range combat planes, the United States has offered in discussions pre- liminary to Chicago to make these American planes available to other countries for their own commercial aviation developments.
 While this sounds like generous offer, i. has received cold shoulder. What other countries want are planes built in their own factories. Selfish nationalism rises higher nowhere than in his jockeying for position in postwar commercial fly ing.