News digest, Vol. 1, No. 5, November 25, 1944

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PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION NEWS DIGEST'
News of the Company and aircraft industry compiled for our employees in the Pacific, Vol. 1, No. 5	November 25,,1944
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LOOK FOR.SOME-ACCELERATED ACTION on -the CAB * s North Atlantic case involving routes between major eastern U.S. terminals and the important capitals of Europe. The report .of Examiners Thomas L. Wrenn and F. D. Moran is expected within 60 days and a decision may be handed down in short order since the.CAB:is anxious for the U.S. to be ready to go when international transport opens up at war’s end.
FAST MOVING DEVELOPMENTS in the international field have left the CAB in a somewhat muddled situation. Hearing of the Pacific cases, for example, may delay for months a decision on the already-,heard Hawaiian case, since the latter is so closely tied up in - the-whole Pacific -picture that a decision issued prior to the Pacific hearing would .wsause, obvious complications. Among those complications is the, fact that many of-the applicants in the Hawaiian case are also involved in the Pacific hearing.
(Aviation Daily, 11/4.)	,	* * *
: . " .	...	. BRITAIN..AND DOMINION VIEWPOINTS DIVIDED
. ■ . Instead df coming into : the International Aviation Conference with a united front, Groat‘Britain and her Dominions have' presented three different viewpoints which are not.too clo'se together*. The-British plan proposes an international body with wide' .•powers to control traffic and economic matters as well as the technical side. The Canadian plan, which is a revision of the proposal drawn up earlier this year, adopts » the principle of free competition with a convention for policing duties*
The Canadian revision was believed to have made as an attempt to movo .closer to the U.. S. position. Australia and New Zealand are advocating .international .ownership of world air routes.. The cleavage in the British hoped for ’’Empire Bloc” greatly encouraged the American delegates and was interpreted to mean that Britain’s ’’rejection of the idea of free competition” was losing favor. Some quarters now say that since Canada, Nov/ Zealand, Australia, and Britain have, gone their several ways the U.S. might be more amenable to increasing British Commonwealth representation on the execu-... tive council of the proposed aviation assembly. There'now is less likelihood of over-representation for-a particular bloc, it is said* From several sources, ,too, comes word that Russia, whose influence on the conference is increasingly evident despite her absence, should generally favor the draft agreement on world air transport submitted by the American delegation.
They expect.this supposition, based on exploratory talks Soviet officials recently heJLd' with the State Dept, to play a significant part in winning support of other countries to the American stand against international commercial .and political control of aviation.. Tho U.S. proposes an international aviation assembly and an executive council with nine-permanent members, two each from thp U.S., Russia and British Com-inonwealth and one each from Brazil, China and France.. Russia •'will become such a potent factor in future international air transport that there accordingly must be reserved.a toprank position for her on any aeronautical body set up , in, Ch-i'ca'go regardless of her absence from tho deliberations, authorities say. (Daily, 11/4)
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NEW AVIATION EQUIPMENT TO BE SHOWN AT ST. LOUIS MEETING New devices and equipment, some of them developed from war experience, will be publicly exhibited in St.!Louis Dec. 5 to 9 at the fifth annual convention of^the