Word: swinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's tall, dictatorial Lord Swinton, Civil Aviation Minister, suggested, in line with Britain's white paper (TIME, March 26), that traffic within the Empire be split equally between Britain's Chosen Instrument, the British Overseas Airways Corp., and Commonwealth air lines...
Miffed. U.S. plane manufacturers were hopping mad at a report that Britain was frowning on a sale of five Douglas DC-25 to the Misr (Egyptian) Airlines. Airmen heard that Britain's Minister for Civil Aviation, the Rt. Hon. Viscount Swinton, had warned the Egyptians that their blocked sterling account in London could not be tapped for U.S. airplanes...
...world to see, British Civil Aviation Minister Lord Swinton last week laid down a bold and specific plan for Britain's air future...
...carefully prepared White Paper, Tory Minister Swinton let it be clearly understood that Britain will not limp into international postwar air competition with one monopolistic chosen instrument (British Overseas Airways Corp.); it will enter the postwar international air race with three. The new chosen...
Take Two, Leave Three. After a careful look, Lord Swinton took the first two proposals. But he left the other three, particularly the last, which would have permitted a U.S. plane flying to Paris via London to pick up passengers in London, take them to Paris. This, he argued, might "freeze out" British short-haul airlines. The Netherlands and France sided with England. But other nations, notably Latin American and Scandinavian countries, agreed to all five...