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...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...
...Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...
...Freedoms. Having lost his main battle, Lord Swinton fought a rear-guard action under cover of the five freedoms. Complaining that the freedoms, as drawn, were too favorable to the U.S., he blocked any agreement. (One British delegate talked bitterly of "the freedom to strangle small nations.") In a final attempt to end this deadlock last week, Berle, who resigned as Assistant Secretary of State this week (see U.S. AT WAR), presented a "take it or leave it" version of the freedoms...