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Said Monro: "It is doubly dangerous and unfortunate that a blind, unreasonable and selfish desire not only to perpetuate but to create an even more gigantic monopoly, is placed ahead of the national welfare. ... It is particularly dangerous when it is based on the filmy, seductive allure of 'one company with all airlines participating.' "
The British. The Trippe school has always pointed to England as the classic example of the nation that found out the hard way that one international airline was enough. (For three years, Britain had only one.) But last week American Aviation reported that 1) "the British Government so far has refused to be smoked out on [the chosen instrument] issue"; 2) British aircraft manufacturers have recently come out four-square for competition. Concluded American Aviation: "There is a growing volume of opinion in England against the Government policy of a monopoly ... in the postwar field."