Canada's plan for an international air policy was announced last week by an Americansmart Wayne Parrish, editor of Washington's American Aviation Daily. Four days after Editor Parrish printed the details, U.S.-born Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe confirmed them.
Canada proposed two limited freedoms for the air: 1) the right of all to innocent passage; 2) the right to land for refueling, repairs and emergencies. But international airlines would be licensed by an international air authority. Cross-border lines operating between contiguous countries would be exempt.
Neither Britain nor the U.S. warmed to the...